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Welcome to the Experimenting with Cities: Utilizing Agent-Based Models and GIS to Explore Urban Dynamics website.

This website is a replica of http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/andrew/phd/index.html which was  designed to highlight output from the thesis with specific emphasis on simulation outputs. Additionally it allows future modellers access to the models I have created for this research. This will not only allow others to replicate the results but also to potentially create or extend these models if so desired.

For the original site (as a zip file) click here.

Reference to thesis:

Crooks, A. T. (2007), Experimenting with Cities: Utilizing Agent-Based Models and GIS to Explore Urban Dynamics, PhD Thesis, University College London, London, England.

The website is divided into five principle components:

• • Home: this is where core material for this research including: an abstract, model source code, descriptions of the basic, segregation and location models can be found.

  • Thesis Output: contains publications and selected .pdf of papers and presentations resulting from the research.

  • Results & Analysis: results from the various simulations including figures, tables, animations and details on model implementations (e.g. source code, shapefiles used and links to model details).

  • References: a selection of key references pertaining to the research.

• Contact information.