Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2006-07-14
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 2007 (2007), Article ID 48589, 20 pages
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
17 pages, 11 figures. email: aaguilera@colsan.edu.mx, ugalde@ifisica.uaslp.mx
Scientific paper
10.1155/2007/48589
In this paper we analyze urban spatial segregation phenomenon in terms of the income distribution over a population, and inflationary parameter weighting the evolution of housing prices. For this, we develop a discrete, spatially extended model based in a multi--agent approach. In our model, the mobility of socioeconomic agents is driven only by the housing prices. Agents exchange location in order to fit their status to the cost of their housing. On the other hand, the price of a particular house changes depends on the status of its tenant, and on the neighborhood mean lodging cost, weighted by a control parameter. The agent's dynamics converges to a spatially organized configuration, whose regularity we measured by using an entropy--like indicator. With this simple model we found a nontrivial dependence of segregation on both, the initial inequality of the socioeconomic agents and the inflationary parameter. In this way we supply an explanatory model for the segregation--inequality thesis putted forward by Douglas Massey.
Aguilera Antonio
Ugalde Edgardo
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