Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Lidia Diappi

   Pages 1-15

3. Modeling the Spatial Behavior of Agents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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4. Modeling the spatial behavior of agents

   1. Employing Agents to Develop Integrated Urban Models: Numerical Results from Residential Mobility Experiments

      • Oswald Devisch, Theo Arentze, Aloys Borgers, Harry Timmermans

      Pages 19-42

   2. Modeling Housing Market Dynamics Using a Multi-agent Simulation of Participants’ Cognitive Behavior

      • Maryam Esmaeili, Alberto Vancheri, Paolo Giordano

      Pages 43-83

   3. Redevelopments and Gentrification: A MAS Model of the Urban Housing Market in Milan

      • Lidia Diappi, Paola Bolchi

      Pages 85-99

5. Empirical Investigations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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6. EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS

   1. Between Friends and Strangers: Schelling-Like Residential Dynamics in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem

      • Shlomit Flint, Itzhak Benenson, Nurit Alfasi, Yefim Bakman

      Pages 103-126

   2. Gentrification Without Exclusion? A SOM Neural Network Investigation on the Isola District in Milan

      • Lidia Diappi, Paola Bolchi, Luca Gaeta

      Pages 127-149

   3. Urban Policy and Gentrification. A Critical Analysis Using the Case of Paris

      • Anne Clerval, Antoine Fleury

      Pages 151-170

   4. Conclusions

      • Lidia Diappi

      Pages 171-183

The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space are the result of the imperceptible operation of a multitude of micro-transformations which act with such great energy and decisiveness that they can transform the ‘DNA’ of entire urban neighborhoods. These qualitative novelties, unpredictable and non-deducible on the basis of the previous properties, are defined emergences. Namely emergence means a ‘pattern formation’ characterized by a self-organizing process driven by non-linear dynamics. This book explores housing market emergence in light of three different phenomena: search for housing, social polarization, and gentrification. The book is divided into two parts. The first part presents contributions on modelling emergence of different phenomena, formalised in multi-agent systems. The second part gathers empirical research and analyses aimed at supporting the findings of the models.

• Agent Based Models
• Emergence
• Gentrification
• Housing Market
• Segregation
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• , Dpt. Architecture and Planning, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  Lidia Diappi

Lidia Diappi is a Professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning at the Polytechnico of Milan, Italy.

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