Combining polycentricity and urban scaling to explain socio-economic variables
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2018-06-21
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Recent studies predict that 75 percent of people will be living in cities by 2030 (Triantakonstantis and Mountrakis 2012). This fast urbanization process and an increasing per capita utilization of resources, raises serious concerns about the resilience and future performance of socioeconomic systems. In order to ensure sustainable growth of settlements, requires a good understanding of the way in which settlement patterns affect socio-economic processes. This knowledge will allow us to predict the future performance of settlement areas (Czamanski 2008, Ernstson, van der Leeuw et al. 2010, Grêt-Regamey, Celio et al. 2013). Meijers (2006) and Bertaud and Malpezzi (2003) show how studying the spatial structure of settlement networks can reveal the economic performance and transitions of these networks. In general, it is believed that settlement networks are formed by the combination of two processes. The first process is the bottom-up self-organisation of settlement systems which results in the universal scaling-law in settlement systems. The second process is the topdown regulations which are set by regulations, policies or environmental conditions of a region (Strano and Sood 2016). A large amount of research has been done to understand bottom-up self-organisation
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Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation
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2018 WICI Conference on Modelling Complex Urban Environments
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03521 - Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus) / Axhausen, Kay W. (emeritus)
03823 - Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne / Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG
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Conference lecture held on June 21, 2018.
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Is previous version of: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000344051