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Is Urban Future Predictable?

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Despite uncertainties linked to the increasing speed of technological and societal evolution, important features of future urbanism can be predicted at the regional and global levels and even sometimes for local situations. Comparative urban studies have brought results about universal processes and typical trajectories in the history of urban systems. This analytic description provides the basis for designing robust dynamic models as well as realistic scenarios for exploring a diversity of possible urban futures.

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  1. Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and UMR Géographie-Cités, Paris, France

    Denise Pumain

  2. CNRS, UMR Géographie-Cités and Institut des Systémes Complexes Paris-Ile-de-France, Paris, France

    Romain Reuillon

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Pumain, D., Reuillon, R. (2017). Is Urban Future Predictable?. In: Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46497-8_1

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