1st Edition
Modelling the City Performance, Policy and Planning
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Modelling the City examines the changing role of urban models in respect to both the need to readdress measures of urban well-being and the perceived need to bring model outputs more in tune with key planning problems. The authors argue that whilst there has been substantial progress with a wide range of theoretical problems in urban modelling, modellers have not paid enough attention to the... Read more
1 Introduction 2 Performance indicators in urban planning: the historical context 3 Models and performance indicators in urban planning: the changing policy context 4 Performance indicators and evaluation in contemporary urban modelling 5 A new geography of performance indicators for urban planning 6 Performance indicators for evaluation with a dynamic urban model 7 Understanding retail interaction patterns: the case of the missing performance indicators 8 Applications of performance indicators in urban modelling: subsystems framework 9 An application of performance indicators in Italy 10 Concluding comments
Biography
C.S. Bertuglia is Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at Turin University, G.P. Clarke is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Leeds, and A.G. Wilson is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
