Self-organizing systems and the 'laws of socio-economic geography'
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Self-organizing systems and the 'laws of socio-economic geography'
zbMATH Open document ID: 0586.90062
DOI: 10.1016/0377-2217(86)90122-0
author: Peter Allen
author: Guy Engelen
author: Michèle Sanglier
published in: European Journal of Operational Research
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: An extension of the dynamic intra-urban model developed by the authors over recent years is presented. These improvements were carried out as part of a project to model the spatial evolution of Belgium, and this application is briefly discussed. However the main thrust of the paper is to show how our model generalizes many of the well known 'economic/geographic laws' concerning location, socio-economic structure and the decay with distance of spatial interactions. Indeed we show how the initially simple considerations, embodied in such laws, when put in a dynamic, nonlinear context of mutual interactions, lead through the self- organisation of the system to patterns characterized by anomalies and complexities of the real world. Perhaps in this way, our approach reveals the underlying regularities ('laws') of the system and at the same time the importance of time and evolution, in a proper understanding of the world around us.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B99
zbMATH DE Number: 3941262
zbMATH Keywords: self-organizing systems
zbMATH Keywords: socio-economic geography
zbMATH Keywords: simulation
zbMATH Keywords: decision making
zbMATH Keywords: planning
zbMATH Keywords: dynamic intra-urban model
zbMATH Keywords: location
zbMATH Keywords: socio-economic structure
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0377-2217(86)90122-0
OpenAlex ID: W2025278757
cites work: Q5659089
cites work: Q4138569
cites work: Q3677557
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3941262