Simulating the Dynamics of Creative Industries’ Interactions with Urban Land Use by Agent-Based Modelling

The last chapter examined the locational behaviours of the creative firms and the creative workers and their interactions with the urban government and the citizens in Nanjing. This chapter continues with the aim to demonstrate how these empirical observations are parameterised and the dynamics simulated by agent-based modelling. It begins with a brief introduction to the model development platform NetLogo and its capability to simulate the dynamics. Then, it proceeds to model design, the first step of agent-based modelling which explains three issues: (1) How is the theoretical dynamics framework proposed in the last chapter further developed and simplified into an agent-based modelling framework? (2) How is the abstract urban space of Nanjing described in the model? (3) How are the condition-action rules of the three agent classes quantitatively defined? After this clarification, the chapter comes to its final section which focuses on the second step of modelling: model implementation. It details how the model design is translated into the supposed agent-based model in NetLogo.