Assessing the Impact of Individual Attitude towards Otherness on the Structure of Urban Residential Space: A Multi-actor Model

  • Authors:

  • André Ourednik

  • Affiliations:

  • Chôros Laboratory, Station 16, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, 1015

  • Venue:
  • ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

One of the main challenges of today's analytical geography is the back-linking of observed phenomena to individual actions, as not determined by individuals' structural situation in a one-goal society but by their very choice of spatial goals, i.e. by what shall be called individuals' actor-dimension. In this paper we present an actor-based model of urban residential mobility. Results show that public policies in urban development must take into account and act on this actor-dimension if they are not to obtain effects opposite to their aims.