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CityASim:
Cities of the future are in fact cities of today, but 50 or more years later. If not properly handled, inherent problems of individual cities of today are likely to create even greater problems in the future. Simulate the Development of Cities into the Future CityASim simulation software (City Analysis Simulation Tool) enables the end user to simulate scenarios of changes over a number of years, showing what the city would be like in the future. Simulations of 10 to 15 years of real-time are compressed in the computer model to the timescale of minutes.
As cities are incredibly complex, planning without tools that can tackle the Complexity is not likely to produce sustainable results. For instance, even a system consisting of 20 components which interact with each other in 10 different ways has a hyper-astronomic number of possibilities of 1020. A city has far more components, interacting with each other in many more different ways. This incredibly large number of possibilities cannot be successfully explored manually or by using conventional tools. Conventional planning of cities will therefore leave many aspects of the city open ended, possibly causing the city to develop in an undesirable way. However, careful planning of various aspects of the development of the city is likely to produce a more sustainable development and a more efficient city of the future. A City Analysis Simulation Tool – CityASim has therefore been developed to help improve the quality of urban life in the future.
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