Creative City: An agent-based model which explores the creativity and urban development.

Within this repository you will find additional information about our agent-based model which explores the creativity and urban development:

• For a detailed Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) protocol of our model see ODD.pdf
• The Original Model (created in NetLogo 5.0.3) see Creative_City_NetLogoV5_0_3.nlogo
• Updated Model (NetLogo 6.1.0) see Creative_City_NetLogoV6_1.nlogo

Click on the image below to see a short movie (https://youtu.be/3z01Q34vtKo) of a simulation run:

References relating to this work

• Malik, A.A., Crooks, A.T., Root, H.L. and Swartz, M. (2015), Exploring Creativity and Urban Development through Agent-Based Modeling, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 18 (2): 12. Available at http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/18/2/12.html.
• Malik, A.A., Crooks, A.T. and Root, H.L. (2013), Can Pakistan have Creative Cities? An Agent Based Modeling Approach with Preliminary Application to Karachi. Pakistan Strategy Support Program Working Paper 13, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC. (pdf)
• Malik, A., Swartz, M., Crooks, A.T. and Root, H. (2013), Agent-Based Modeling Simulations for Solving Pakistan’s Urban Challenge, SWARMFEST 2013: 17th Annual Swarmfest Conference, 8th-9th July, Orlando, FL. (pdf)