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SÃO PAULO: MODELLING THE METROPOLIS
4  The saturation model of land use
 Csaba Deák
                   04 March 5


 
 
 
 
 
 

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Assume competition...(Mills)
Rather be broadly right than precisely wrong (Keynes)
Large-scale models based on equilibium
Ambition to LU-transports integration
Requiem for large-scale models > Lee 
Behavioural models
In European contexts (slow changes)
Aggregagate land use
Broad tendencies as known to model builder
Calibration for interpolation
The saturation model
Three parameters:
   dsat  assume according ot tipology of settlement
   initial value
   third value:
       historic value (if available)
       time of saturation, say to 90% (otherwise, pictured opposite)

 

Bibliography.


DEÁK (1980) MoSAR.
GOLDNER (1971) "The Lowry model heritage"
LEE.(1973) "Requiem for large-scale models" 
LOWRY (1971) "A short coourse in model design"

São Paulo, 1997  Saturation densities by zones.- .