Design Implications of Model-Generated Urban Data

• Main Author: Ljubomir Jankovic
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Architectural Research Centers Consortium 2019-11-01
• Series: Enquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research
• Subjects: Urban modelling, cellular automata, market mechanisms, urban performance metrics, urban design implications
• Online Access: https://www.arcc-journal.org/index.php/arccjournal/article/view/1061

The staggering complexity of urban environment and long timescales in the causal mechanisms prevent designers to fully understand the implications of their design interventions. In order to investigate these causal mechanisms and provide measurable trends, a model that partially replicates urban complexity has been developed. Using a cellular automata approach to model land use types and markets for products, services, labour and property, the model has enabled numerical experiments to be carried out. The results revealed causal mechanisms and performance metrics obtained in a much shorter timescale than the real-life processes, pointing to a number of design implications for urban environments.