Simulating informal settlement growth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: An agent-based housing model

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-103

  Augustijn Beckers, Ellen Wien ^a   Flacke, Johannes ^a   Retsios, Bas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Informal settlements; Urban growth modelling; Vector based

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; BUILDING BLOCKES; DEVELOPING WORLD; HOUSING MODELS; INFILLING; INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS; MICRO-SCALES; SIMPLE RULES; SPATIAL CHANGES; TANZANIA; URBAN GROWTH;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; VECTORS;

HOUSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; HOUSING CONDITIONS; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN SOCIETY; URBANIZATION;

DAR ES SALAAM [DAR ES SALAAM (RGA)]; DAR ES SALAAM [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

EID: 79952246049     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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