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Planning in Complex Spatial and Temporal Systems: A Simulation Framework

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Planners are confident that their planning affects not only behaviors in organizations, but also outcomes. There is, however, little backing for this confidence. Surprisingly little is known about planning processes and how they affect organizations. One approach to gaining understanding of planning behaviors in organizations is to develop and analyze simulation models. The framework presented here builds on two streams of previous work: the garbage can models of organizational behavior presented by Cohen et al. (1972) and the spatial evolution models of Nowak and May (1993). Our objective is to develop a framework sufficient to investigate the implications of introducing planning behaviors into complex organizational systems evolving in space and time. Our primary focus for this chapter is on devising simulations from which we might discover general principles about the effects of planning the behavior of organizations. Additional work will be necessary to determine the external validity of these simulations, that is, to interpret concrete situations in terms of such principles.

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  1. College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Shih-Kung Lai

  2. Department of Real Estate and Built Environment, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shih-Kung Lai

  3. Department of Land Resource Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Haoying Han

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Lai, SK., Han, H. (2012). Planning in Complex Spatial and Temporal Systems: A Simulation Framework. In: Geospatial Techniques in Urban Planning. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13559-0_4

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