Morphogenesis of Isobenefit urbanism: Isobenefit-cities simulator

Abstract

Isobenefit Urbanism is a spontaneous-guided planning approach based on a morphogenetic code inducing a walking city where one can reach within 1–2km: natural land, shops, amenities, services and places of work. We present the alpha version of a python code for the simulations of Isobenefit urban morphogenesis. It is a code to simulate urban growth scenario by modifying as one wishes the values of the parameters. The latter are related to densities, surface, population size, random factors and built probabilities. This urban growth model results in nearly infinite outputs all satisfying the Isobenefit urbanism objective function.

Keywords

• Walkable cities
• Green cities
• Sustainable urban forms
• E-planning
• Low carbon cities
• future cities