Understanding Complex Urban Systems by Christian Walloth Ernst Gebetsroither-Geringer Funda Atun & Liss C. Werner

Author:Christian Walloth, Ernst Gebetsroither-Geringer, Funda Atun & Liss C. Werner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Thus, modeling methods that are suitable for understanding such new developments as Airbnb or Uber would be needed to simulate scenarios, which could not have been foreseen by the previously used combinations of data and modeling methods.

I will discuss approaches to these two steps—understanding and influencing new developments—in the remainder of this chapter. First, I will discuss how Big Data methods could, potentially, help in understanding new developments and providing information for modeling (Sect. 2). Then I will argue that Big Data is not (and will not be) available in many cases, and that Big Data methods may not be suitable to detect new developments (Sect. 3). But this may not pose a problem about understanding and influencing complex urban systems: In Sect. 4.1, I will offer an alternative for understanding new developments, i.e., an approach to understanding cities as Nested Systems. This alternative also involves an approach for effectively influencing new developments (Sect. 4.2). Based on the discussion of both approaches—Big Data and Nested Systems—as well as their exemplification via means of a hypothetical case study (Sect. 4.3), it will become clear how influencing can be exercised by proactively driving new developments (Sect. 5).

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