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Playing with Automata. An Innovative Perspective for
Gaming Simulation
Ivan Blecic
1
, Arnaldo Cecchini
2
, Paola Rizzi
1
, and Giuseppe A. Trunfio
3
1
Dept. of Planning - Faculty of Urban Planning - Istituto Universitario di Architettura di
Venezia;
{ivan, rizzi}@iuav.it
2
Dept. of Architecture and Urban Planning - Faculty of Architecture - University of Sassari;
cecchini@uniss.it
3
Department of Mathematics, University of Calabria;
andrea.trunfio@tiscali.it
1. Cellular Automata and Territorial Planning
In this article we will advance - from different points of view - a methodological and
operative proposal of an “environment” based on cellular automata useful for the
design of models of some efficacy for territorial analysis and planning. Furthermore,
we well suggest a modality of its use that permits the coupling of a cellular automata
models with other instruments in general, and with a role-play games in particular.
1.1 The Crisis of “Old Planning”
The traditional paradigm of urban and territorial planning based on “demiurgical”
conception of planner's role has, for different reasons, gone through a profound crisis:
numerous and different “styles” of masterplan inspired by such conception, described
efficaciously by Hall [14] and Alexander [1], have come to an arrest - after some
initial positive results - in the face of certain insurmountable obstacles.
Among these obstacles, the most relevant on our opinion appear to be:
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the crisis of reference epistemological paradigms;
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the difficulty of prediction;
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the difficulty to take into account all social and individual “forces” that “give
shape” to the city;
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the co-presence of many levels of decision-making instances (both in vertical and
in horizontal sense);
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the expansion of phenomena related to globalisation and the affirmation of the
“liberist” ideology and that of the “unique thought”;
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the growth and diffusion of movements of protest and “protagonism” on various
levels.
S. Bandini, B. Chopard, and M. Tomassini (Eds.): ACRI 2002, LNCS 2493, pp. 337-348, 2002.
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002
