Modeling Morphology of Cities and Towns

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dc.creatorMakse, Hernan A.
dc.creatorHavlin, Shlomo
dc.creatorStanley, H. Eugene
dc.date1995-04-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:07:41Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:07:41Z
dc.descriptionPredicting urban growth is important for practical reasons, and also for the challenge it presents to theoretical frameworks for cluster dynamics. Recently, the model of diffusion limited aggregation (DLA) has been applied to describe urban growth, and results in tree-like dendritic structures which have a core or ``central business district'' (CBD). The DLA model predicts that there exists only one large fractal cluster that is almost perfectly screened from incoming ``development units'' (people, capital, resources, etc), so that almost all the cluster growth occurs in the extreme peripheral tips. Here we propose and develop an alternative model to DLA that describes the morphology and the area distribution of systems of cities, as well as the scaling of the urban perimeter of individual cities. Our results agree both qualitatively and quantitatively with actual urban data. The resulting growth morphology can be understood in terms of the effects of interactions among the constituent units forming a urban region, and can be modeled using the correlated percolation model in the presence of a gradient.
dc.description8 pages, REVTEX, 6 figures available upon request from hmakse@malcolm.bu.edu
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9504111
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9504111
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/27262
dc.subjectCondensed Matter
dc.titleModeling Morphology of Cities and Towns
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