SUPPORTING URBAN PLANNING WITH CAGE: A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT TO SIMULATE COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Arnaldo Cecchini () and Giuseppe A. Trunfio ()
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Arnaldo Cecchini: Department of Architecture and Planning, University of Sassari, Palazzo del Pou Salit, Piazza Duomo 6, Alghero, 07041, Italy
Giuseppe A. Trunfio: Department of Architecture and Planning, University of Sassari, Palazzo del Pou Salit, Piazza Duomo 6, Alghero, 07041, Italy

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2007, vol. 10, issue supp0, 309-325

Abstract: The planning process is a multiactor, multilevel process, and the techniques we need for it must be suitable for all the protagonists involved. Moreover, the difficulty in dealing with the complexity of urban systems and the related difficulty of analyzing and forecasting are twofold: one kind of difficulty lies in the complexity of the system itself, and the other is due to the actions of actors, which are "acts of freedom." Correspondingly, the process of urban planning requires a set of techniques and models that have proved to be of great potential for management of communication, participation, consensus-building and system' simulation. In this paper, we describe the peculiarity of the articulated set of tools that should be used to support planning, allowing the setting up and management of processes of participation and communication tailored to the needs of specific projects — a set of friendly tools that make the relationship between technicians, clients and users effective and efficacious. Following this discussion we present a very flexible software environment based on cellular automata (Cellular Automata General Environment — CAGE) that can be used to simulate planning decisions and can be coupled with other modules dealing with the "social side" of complexity.

Keywords: Urban planning; urban models; simulation; cellular automata (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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