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Cellular Automata and Fractal Urban Form: A Cellular Modelling Approach to the Evolution of Urban Land-Use Patterns

R White and G Engelen
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R White: Department of Geography, Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
G Engelen: Research Institute for Knowledge Systems, PO Box 463, 6200 AL Maastricht, The Netherlands

Environment and Planning A, 1993, vol. 25, issue 8, 1175-1199

Abstract: Cellular automata belong to a family of discrete, connectionist techniques being used to investigate fundamental principles of dynamics, evolution, and self-organization. In this paper, a cellular automaton is developed to model the spatial structure of urban land use over time. For realistic parameter values, the model produces fractal or bifractal land-use structures for the urbanized area and for each individual land-use type. Data for a set of US cities show that they have very similar fractal dimensions. The cellular approach makes it possible to achieve a high level of spatial detail and realism and to link the results directly to general theories of structural evolution.

Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1068/a251175

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