Agent Based Modelling and GIS
Just been released by Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Ed Manley & Alison Heppenstall. Essential reading on ABM. Proud that it has come from our extended group in CASA and Leeds. I wrote the foreword. Click on the text to buy a copy.
If you would like to purchase my new book, click on one of the links below to view online …
Category Archives: power laws
Agglomeration, The Keys to the Good City?
In CASA, in a project lead by Clementine Cottineau, we are working how economic and social attributes of cities scale with size. This is one of our longstanding foci in our ERC Mechanicity Work and it will also be central … Continue reading
Posted in city size, Complexity, Economies of scale, Hierarchy, power laws, Scaling
Leave a comment
On the Problem of City Boundaries
Paolo Masucci led this study based on defining city boundaries – one of the key research issues in CASA on our Mechanicity project – introducing a really simple idea that cities grow to a condensation threshold after which the city is … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, Connectivity, Emergence, Fractals, power laws, Scaling
Leave a comment
Gravity
Krugman is very, very insightful when it comes to social physics. His NY Times blog on ‘Gravity’ relates to an article by Adam Davidson on how a gravity model is able to simulate trade between a place called Kanesh in … Continue reading
