Transient Dynamics and Scaling Phenomena in Urban Growth
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چکیده
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 2-dimensional cellular automata model containing what we identify as essential ingredients in the demographic change. The slow addition of population to an initially empty area (mimicking migration) added with a reaction-diiusion 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.
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