A new Model of City Growth and its Application to a middle sized French City

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel percolation-based theoretical model of city growth and demonstrates its practical application to the French city of Montargis, highlighting computational efficiency with big data integration.

Contribution

It presents a new city growth model based on percolation theory and applies it to a real city, showcasing its efficiency and potential for big data analysis.

Findings

Model effectively simulates city growth dynamics

Algorithm handles large datasets efficiently

Application to Montargis demonstrates practical utility

Abstract

In the first part of this paper we propose a new theoretical model of city growth based on percolation. The second half oh the paper is devoted to a concrete application of the model, namely to the city of Montargis. It appears that the embedded algorithm is quite efficient in terms of computational time and allows to exploit big data type ressources such as individual land lots.