Agent-based simulation of urban residential dynamics and land rent change in a gentrifying area of Boston

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 475-491

  Jackson, Jeremy ^a   Forest, Benjamin ^a   Sengupta, Raja ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; HOUSING;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; BOTTOM UP; COMPLEX PROCESSES; DECISION-MAKING RULES; EMPIRICAL DATA; LAND RENT; MACROSCALES; MODELING APPROACH; SIMPLE++;

DYNAMICS;

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENTRIFICATION; MODELING; PLANNING METHOD; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

BOSTON; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48649083945     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2008.01109.x     Document Type: Article

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