Multi-agent simulator for urban segregation (MASUS): A tool to explore alternatives for promoting inclusive cities

Feitosa, Flávia da Fonseca; Le, Quang Bao; Vlek, Paul L. G.

doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.06.001

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“…Multi-agent technology is an effective new method of solving multidisciplinary, distributed and collaborative land-use planning decisions (Kurihara et al, 2005). Combining the MALPDSS system designed by the multi-agent method can support distributed collaborative group activities relatively well, improve the efficiency of user planning decisions and effectively enhance land use structure optimization and support decision capabilities (Feitosa et al, 2011). Fang (2011 constructed an urban industrial layout decision support system, which provided full technical support and information services to achieve the standardized management of urban industrial upgrading and optimization in China and to allow city, county and township governments to coordinate and regulate industry selection, investment, distribution and management.…”

Section: Optimal Decision Support Systems For Interactive Coupling Bementioning

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International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

2016

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Global urbanization is exerting severe stress and having far-reaching impacts on the eco-environment, and yet there exists a complex non-linear coupling relationship between the two. Research on the interactive coupling effect between urbanization and the eco-environment will be a popular area of study and frontier in international earth system science and sustainability science in the next 10 years, while also being a high-priority research topic of particular interest to international organizations. This paper systematically collates and summarizes the international progress made in research on interactive coupling theory, coupling relationships, coupling mechanisms, coupling laws, coupling thresholds, coupling models and coupling optimization decision support systems. The research shows that urbanization and eco-environment interactive coupling theories include the Kuznets curve theory, telecoupling theory, planetary boundaries theory, footprint family theory and urban metabolism theory; most research on interactive coupling relationships is concerned with single-element coupling relationships, such as those between urbanization and water, land, atmosphere, climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity; the majority of research on interactive coupling mechanisms and laws focuses on five research paradigms, including coupled human and nature systems, complex social-ecological systems, urban ecosystems, social-economic-natural complex ecosystems, and urbanization development and eco-environment constraint ring; the majority of interactive coupling simulations use STIRPAT models, coupling degree models, multi-agent system models and big data urban computer models; and research has been carried out on urbanization and eco-environment coupling thresholds, coercing risk and optimal decision support systems. An objective evaluation of progress in international research on interactive coupling between urbanization and the eco-environment suggests that there are six main research focal points and six areas lacking research: a lot of research exists on macroscopic coupling effects, with little research on urban agglomeration and scale coupling effects; considerable research exists on sin-

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Section: Optimal Decision Support Systems For Interactive Coupling Bementioning

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International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

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“…City planners and decision makers should implement policies that minimize the possibility of segregation based on income, ethnical, gender, age, etc. Feitosa, Le, and Vlek (:104) define income segregation as “separation among the residential locations of different income groups.” These authors show that income segregation has a negative impact on urban populations by contributing to the social exclusion of disadvantaged groups. Poor people, living in the same areas or neighborhoods, are often associated with little quality of built and natural environments, higher exposure to violence and diseases (e.g., Sabatini, Caceres, and Cerda ; Torres et al ), and less societal participation, thus reducing their opportunities for jobs and skill improvement (e.g., Briggs ; Torres ).…”

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Toward a Resource‐Based View of City Quality: A New Framework

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Based on an extensive literature review on intelligent cities, smart cities, and happy cities, and on their conceptual connections with citizens' well‐being, quality of life, and happiness, we developed a resource‐based view on City Quality: the PESNAT (political, economic, social, natural, artificial, and technological) framework. The concept of City Quality rests on the idea of cities interconnected sub‐habitats—PESNAT—which are powerful analytical categories needed for understanding cities as complex and intricate loci. This framework eventually aims at assessing the cities' power to attract businesses and people, to contribute to a sustainable development of the city and an increased quality of life. Furthermore, two hypotheses are outlined regarding the level of importance of each sub‐habitat in relation to happiness, and the level of controversy of each one for citizens, city planners, and decision makers.

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“…While water supply and sewage drainage systems exist across the entire territory (though not all homes are necessarily connected to them), public transport, street lighting and tree planting are grossly lacking in poor neighborhoods. Echoing the analyzes of different authors, Feitosa et al (2011) point out that several factors contribute to urban spatial segregation, including the job market and its socio-economic impact (salary level, job insecurity, etc.) and increasing poverty among poor workers and sub-standard living conditions.…”

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Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil

Bolay¹

2016

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According to international statistics, nearly 50% of the world's urban population live nowadays in cities of less than 500,000 inhabitants. These small and medium-sized cities play a role of intermediation between rural regions, local economy and more extensed urban networks, with three spheres of influence: micro-regional, national and international. In many of these "intermediate cities", the main problem to reinforce them in their action is a lack of financial and human resources for managing the city in a comprehensive way, in order to tackle the demographic and spatial extension of these urban settlements, and avoid an increase of social segregation and fragmentation of territory. The example of Montes Claros, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, helps us understand how a city of nearly 400,000 inhabitants, at the center of an economically prosperous region, tackles these issues through a current process of urban planning, having to take into account its historical, social and spatial context. Like most Brazilian and Latin American cities, Montes Claros-which acts as a transit hub at the State and national levels-is a rapidly growing intermediary city that has seen continued economic growth over the past two decades. However, this industrial and business growth has not resulted in a more inclusive distribution of the urban population. Considering the resulting growth from rural migration and new urban residents, the urban area of Montes Claros remains fragmented territorially, with neighborhoods more or less well equipped and served by public transport depending on the socioeconomic status of their inhabitants. The current process of urban planning raises many issues, among them three crucial elements to improve in order to reintroduce planning as appropriate approach and instruments able to guide the decision makers towards the future of a city and its region: a medium and long-term vision for Montes Claros, its hinterland and the Northern region of Minas Gerais; a biased perception of Montes Claros in which only the dense areas in the city center are taken into account, with suburban areas still disconnected from the rest of the city and poorly integrated; a participatory process of urban planning involving all stakeholder and population, from the diagnostic till the definition of priorities in terms of urban policies, strategies and investments.

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Multi-agent simulator for urban segregation (MASUS): A tool to explore alternatives for promoting inclusive cities

Cited by 62 publications

References 25 publications

International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

International progress and evaluation on interactive coupling effects between urbanization and the eco-environment

Toward a Resource‐Based View of City Quality: A New Framework

Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil

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