The use of agent-based modeling for studying the social and physical environment of cities

Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 385-407

  Crooks, Andrew ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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