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Our ability to simulate physical environments has advanced rapidly in recent years. These advances have been hailed as means to enhance the fit between people and environments because better simulation should improve our ability to anticipate the effects of choosing one design option over others. Although this is intuitively desirable, we should be aware that improved simulation may also have undesirable effects. This chapter briefly describes the new simulation technologies and identifies several of the adverse effects that may arise from introducing environmental simulation into the processes by which we regulate community development.
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Catalano, R., Arenstein, W. (1993). Regulatory Implications of Environmental Simulation. In: Marans, R.W., Stokols, D. (eds) Environmental Simulation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1140-7_12
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