Assessing innovation: Dynamics of high-rise development in an Israeli city

Jonatan Almagor, Itzhak Benenson and Nurit Alfasi

Environment and Planning B, 2018, vol. 45, issue 2, 253-274

Abstract: Urban models serve as laboratories, providing researchers with the opportunity to assess the impact of a wide range of social and economic processes on the development of a built environment. Novelty and unexpected changes play an essential role in this development, but these are difficult to formalize and imitate. Typically, urban models simulate innovation by introducing stochastic fluctuations of the pre-established development rules. This research offers a methodology for assessing innovation in a developing city and examining its impact on urban development. The methodology is implemented in the Israeli city of Netanya, where urban development is analyzed at a resolution of single buildings over a period of three decades. We recognize two types of innovation: spatial innovation, manifested by leapfrogging residential clusters that establish new development areas; and contextual innovation, manifested by residential clusters that include buildings that are substantially higher than their surroundings. We demonstrate the impact of few innovative residential clusters on urban development in the following decades and highlight the diffusion of innovation in the city.

Keywords: Built environment; urban dynamics; urban simulation; development process; self-organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0265813516671311

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