Guhathakurta, Subhrajit (2001) Urban modelling as storytelling: using simulation models as a narrative. (CASA Working Papers 37). Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL): London, UK.
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Abstract
This article examines the distinctions between empirical and simulation models using the metaphors of argument and narrative. It argues that all argumentation is contextualized within a narrative that is either inferred or communicated. The paper provides another semantic structure for urban models that applies elements of systems- dynamic method to construct "stories" of the past and possible futures of communities in a watershed in southern Arizona. By constructing such narratives this paper demonstrates how computer-based urban models can "tell a story".
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Urban modelling as storytelling: using simulation models as a narrative |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/working_papers/paper37.pdf |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
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