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http://dx.doi.org/10.6106/KJCEM.2018.19.4.093

Study of an Applicability of an Urban Design Method Using Artificial Life Theory  

Lim, Myunggu (Steelcon Co., Ltd.)
Kim, Kyoontai (Construction Industry Innovation Center, Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology)
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Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management / v.19, no.4, 2018 , pp. 93-101 More about this Journal
Abstract
A city is like a living organism that is born, grows and become extinct within an ecosystem. In recent years, more and more cities have been planned by designers rather than spontaneously growing over time. This planning means that if a city is not appropriately designed at the beginning, it is very hard to fix or adjust it later. A poor urban design inconveniences many people, and forces them to adjust to it. For this reason, it is important to design a city as optimally as possible at the design phase. One of the reasons why a city is not designed optimally is complexity. Previous urban design methods have attempted to resolve the complexity by using a top-down problem-solving method based on the experience and knowledge of the urban planner. However, such an approach does not have the organic characteristics of a bottom-up problem-solving method of an artificial life, based on the creation principle of the ecosystem. Therefore, in this study the general principle of artificial life, which can provide a solution to the bigger problems that accumulate as a result of the solutions to small units of problems, is adopted. This enables us to draw various urban design alternatives, and it proves that the alternatives, despite being drawn through a limited modeling method, have almost no differences from those designed by an expert, and its possibilities of future development has also been verified.
Keywords
City; Urban Planning; Ecosystem; Artificial Life;
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