Urban Modeling as Storytelling: Using Simulation Models as a Narrative

Subhrajit Guhathakurta
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Subhrajit Guhathakurta: School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, Mail Code 872005, Tempe, AZ 85287-2005, USA

Environment and Planning B, 2002, vol. 29, issue 6, 895-911

Abstract: This paper examines the distinctions between empirical and simulation models using the metaphors of argument and narrative. It argues that all argumentation is contextualized within a narrative that is either inferred or communicated. It provides another semantic structure for urban models that applies elements of systems-dynamic method to construct ‘stories' of the past and possible futures of communities in a watershed in southern Arizona. By constructing such narratives this paper demonstrates how computer-based urban models can ‘tell a story’.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1068/b12857

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