Advance your urban expertise on cutting-edge modeling techniques. This hands-on course introduces cellular automata (CA) as a powerful tool for simulating and understanding urban development patterns in the age of AI and digital twins.
What You'll Learn
You'll gain practical knowledge of CA principles and their application to urban futures modeling. Through interactive sessions, you'll learn to evaluate when cellular automata are the right modeling approach for specific contexts. You'll explore how key variables influence CA outcomes and develop critical thinking skills to assess both the opportunities and limitations of this methodology.
Who Should Enroll
Whether you're working in urban planning, policy, research, or related fields, this course helps you enhance your technical toolkit with state-of-the-art modeling methods. If you're looking to understand the modeling techniques behind cellular automata, this course bridges theory and practice.
Course Approach
Expect a hands-on learning experience that moves beyond abstract concepts. You'll work with simple CA models to gain intuitive understanding of urban growth dynamics, preparing you to engage confidently with advanced modeling techniques in contemporary practice.
Course content
Learning outcomes
After this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize the principles of a cellular automaton
- Evaluate whether a cellular automaton fits to modelling urban futures in a specific application context
- Identify the effects of key variables on the outcomes of a simple CA modelling urban future layouts
- Reflect on the opportunities and challenges when modelling urban futures with a CA