A Cellular Automata Intraurban Model with Prices and Income-Dif Erentiated Actors

Bernardo Furtado, Dick Ettema, Ricardo Machado Ruiz, Jelle Hurkens and Hedwig van Delden
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Dick Ettema: Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht (URU), University of Utrecht, PO Box 80115, Utrecht 3508 TC, The Netherlands
Ricardo Machado Ruiz: Centre for Regional Development and Planning, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos, 6627, sala 3032-Camus Pampulha CEP: 31270-901 Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil

Environment and Planning B, 2012, vol. 39, issue 5, 897-924

Abstract: This paper presents an intraurban cellular automata model that is an extension to White and Engelen's pioneering model. The paper's main contribution is to distinguish between agglomerative effects, determined by the attraction of the neighbourhood, and disagglomerative effects, driven by land prices, or land affordability. In order to do that, social heterogeneity is introduced in the model at the intraurban level. As a result, we can simulate both the evolution of land use and land prices. An application of the model and a sensitivity analysis indicate that neighborhood influence is the main driving force of cities' spatial configurations. Prices, however, exert an important countereffect. Actually, the higher the influence of land prices, the faster land succession is observed. Finally, an important conclusion of the model is that intraurban models should not fail to differentiate actors by income level.

Keywords: cellular automata; intraurban analysis; land prices; income-differentiated urban actors; urban modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1068/b37134

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