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An integral urban growth model is introduced. We developed this model to capture the different spatial morphologies and urban dynamics observed when more than one city are interacting on a specific region creating large metropolitan areas at different geographical scales. For small scales (1:1500000) our model is based on two well-known fractal growth processes, diffusion and percolation, in order to represent two of the main urban growth drivers: people migration and economics of agglomeration respectively. Morphology at large scales (1:50000) is derived from a Self-Organized Criticality (SOC) model, adapted to urban interactions to explore the possible relations between “avalanches” and city redensification processes.
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Murcio, R., Rodríguez-Romo, S. (2013). Modeling Urban Patterns Across Geographical Scales by a Fractal Diffusion-Aggregation Approach. In: Gilbert, T., Kirkilionis, M., Nicolis, G. (eds) Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00395-5_102
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