Slumulation: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Slum Formations

Amit Patel (), Andrew Crooks () and Naoru Koizumi ()
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Amit Patel: http://mason.gmu.edu/~apatelh
Andrew Crooks: http://gisagents.org
Naoru Koizumi: http://nkoizumi.gmu.edu

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2012, vol. 15, issue 4, 2

Abstract: Slums provide shelter for nearly one third of the world's urban population, most of them in the developing world. Slumulation represents an agent-based model which explores questions such as i) how slums come into existence, expand or disappear ii) where and when they emerge in a city and iii) which processes may improve housing conditions for urban poor. The model has three types of agents that influence emergence or sustenance of slums in a city: households, developers and politicians, each of them playing distinct roles. We model a multi-scale spatial environment in a stylized form that has housing units at the micro-scale and electoral wards consisting of multiple housing units at the macro-scale. Slums emerge as a result of human-environment interaction processes and inter-scale feedbacks within our model.

Keywords: Slums; Housing; Developing Countries; Urban Poor; Informal Settlements; Agent-Based Modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-10-31
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