Simulation for Planning and Design

Designing is an anticipatory activity, directed toward creating the new and altering and improving what currently exists. Anticipating future states requires that designers and planners grasp and work with the tangible realities of the present. And, in order to understand these present realities, they must first represent them, structuring a representation that allows a preferred plan or design to be developed. Because the complexities of the real world defy a complete rendering, representations are, of necessity, a selected view or abstraction of actual conditions.