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Modelling and Systems Analysis in Urban Planning

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Certain urban systems can be understood with the aid of mathematical models.

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WILSON, A. Modelling and Systems Analysis in Urban Planning. Nature 220, 963–966 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220963a0

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