The edges of the city and urban growth simulation with cellular automata

Abstract

Simulations of urban growth using cellular automatons have shown differences in the comparison of expansion edges to other parts of the city, concentrated in the interfaces of the urban with the non-urban and the most urbanized with the least urbanized. This concentration tends to demarcate expansion fronts in shaped line, determining a border with different behavior from the rest of the system, in which it is observed simultaneous concentration and exclusion, with cells of high potential for transformation and low concentration of urban facilities. These expansion fronts are being studied with simulations in small towns of southern Brazil, through the City Cell software, developed by the Laboratory for Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Pelotas. Thus, this paper presents an overview about the simulations of growth and the results that have been achieved.

Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Volumen 8, Número 2 Otoño, 2015; 357-370