Entropy in urban and regional modelling

🤖 Plain-English Summary

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.

🔑 Key Findings

• A personal stocktake of subsequent developments is presented here.
• 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’).
• These have enabled the original concept to be used in an expanded way in a wide range of models.

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