Research Article
Mar 1974
System Dynamics Approach to Urban Planning
Publication: Journal of the Urban Planning and Development Division
Volume 100, Issue 1
Abstract
Forrester employs a system dynamics technique for modeling complex, multiloop, feedback systems—a technique which he claims bridges the gap between engineering and the social sciences—to transform his theory of the economic and demographic growth and decay of a city into a computer model. In this paper both the modeling technique and its specific application to an urban area are considered. Forrester uses the urban dynamics model to describe the natural evolution of a city and to test the effects of various public policies on the urban system. Simulation results and the disconcerting policy recommendations Forrester extracts from them are considered. It is concluded that although the urban dynamics model is not itself an accurate representation of a city, the potential of systems analysis in social simulation is great.
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Journal of the Urban Planning and Development Division
Volume 100 • Issue 1 • March 1974
Pages: 43 - 56
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© 1974 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Mar 1974
Published online: Feb 12, 2021
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K. Preston White
Grad. Asst., Dept. of Mech. Engrg., Duke Univ., Durham, N.C.
Jarir S. Dajani, M.ASCE
Asst. Prof. of Mech. Engrg., Duke Univ., Durham, N.C.
Donald Wright
Asst. Prof. of Civ. Engrg., Duke Univ., Durham, N.C.
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