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REGENERATING RUN-DOWN PUBLIC HOUSING

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 1999 1:25 am
by "Paul G Ellis"
As a teacher with some SD experience, and a personal
interest in the problem outlined below, Id appreciate any
constructive suggestions re

1) Previous efforts to model the degeneration and/or regeneration of
public housing, at the estate ("project") level

2) Advice on whether to aim for a single model, or to try a set of
linked sub-models (e.g., physical condition of housing, residents
characteristics/evolution, local govt funding/management . . )

The reference mode Im currently considering is a Quality of
Life index, from the residents viewpoint.

JWFs "Urban Dynamics" seems to be at too broad a level for my
purposes. Im aiming to get a handle on the main factors of
degeneration, over a period of a few decades, and regeneration over
perhaps a decade, in order to investigate leverage points, for one
specific housing estate - especially the balance between putting
resources/effort into material regeneration vs regeneration of the
social fabric.

Any suggestions gratefully received

Paul G Ellis
pellis@city.ac.uk

REGENERATING RUN-DOWN PUBLIC HOUSING

Posted: Thu Dec 23, 1999 4:22 am
by "Jaideep Mukherjee"
Have you checked Louis Alfelds Introduction to Urban Dynamics? He starts
from VERY simple models, beautifully explained, and then expands them to
urban models of much larger complexity. A few months back similar topics
were heavily discussed here on the list - please try keyword searches (e.g.
"urban dynamics", "urban decay", "public housing", "quality of life", etc
etc.) on my site at www.optimlator.com and you will find the corresponding
sorted postings. The "books" section there also points to this and similar
books. Life expectancy in the Limits to Growth population module may be used
as a proxy for Quality of Life - many software packages contain this model -
check links to demos for these packages from the "software" section. You can
reuse/prune
efine parts of this and other models for your purpose. Hope all
this helps, else email separately and I will try to help.

Jaideep
jaideep@optimlator.com