Entropy in urban and regional modelling

More than fifty years have elapsed since the publication of ‘A statistical theory of spatial distribution models’. In a paper with Britton Harris in 1978, new foundations were laid for dynamic modelling – later seen as adding space to Lotka-Volterra concepts to the Boltzmann core, and hence for these models to be labelled as BLV models.

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• 1 A personal stocktake of subsequent developments is presented here.
• 2 This begins with identifying what have become key concepts in the development of spatial interaction modelling and dynamics: the way in which knowledge can be represented as constraints, the importance of accounts, and generalised cost (and the attractiveness part of a ‘utility function’).
• 3 These have enabled the original concept to be used in an expanded way in a wide range of models.

This work deepens our understanding of the fundamental laws governing the universe, from subatomic particles to cosmic structures.

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