Cities and roads as pattern formation on landscapes

Our new paper with Naoya Fujiwara, Mark Fricker and Toshiyuki Nakagaki, “A model for simulating emergent patterns of cities and roads on real-world landscapes” is published.

Reference

A model for simulating emergent patterns of cities and roads on real-world landscapes, Takaaki Aoki, Naoya Fujiwara, Mark Fricker & Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Scientific reports, vol. 12(1), 10093 (2022).
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-13758-1

Press release in Japanese

• 人類の都市文明の立地と発展に粘菌からヒント — 現実の地形にあわせた、街と道の千年紀シミュレーション —

Press release in English

• All roads lead to big cities

Media

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tags: PatternFormation, AdaptiveNetworks