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| Towards a Theoretical Framework of Urban Growth
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David Murillo
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| Name of the Author(s) and Affiliation(s):
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Marty Anderies, ASU; Carlos Castillo-Chavez, ASU
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The overwhelming trend is for urban areas to grow. The challenge is to accentuate the positive impacts of this growth (innovation, art, wealth, etc) while mitigating the negative burdens (crime, pollution, poverty, loss of biodiversity, etc). This is inherently complex since there are multiple physical, biological and social issues that are interconnected. There are
several studies on just one aspect of this problem, but I propose a more encompassing approach by looking at the interplay between institutions and ecological processes (topography, economics, etc) using both computational and analytical (mathematical equations) approaches. We used simplified equations to build an intuition towards a more comprehensive modeling framework.
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