SFI Working Paper Abstract
1998
| Title: | Transient Dynamics and Scaling Phenomena in Urban Growth |
| Author(s): | Susanna C. Manrubia, Damián H. Zanette, and Ricard V. Solé |
| Files: | [gzipped postscript] [postscript] |
| Paper #: | 98-12-110 |
| Abstract: | Urban centers present all over the world striking similarities which translate into universal laws describing their growth and morphology. In this paper, we study a simple two-dimensional cellular automata model containing what we identfiy as essential ingredients in the demographic change. the slow addition of population to an initially empty area (mimicking migration) added with a reaction-diffusion process (representing reorganization of the population) allows us to recover many real data and provide us with a better understanding of the main processes forming and shaping the modern metropolis. |