Final Proposal : Punching in A Dream

Author :

• Yifang Zuo : Focuses on interactivity
• Zheng Xin : Focuses on designing the blocks in a borough
• Kevin Sani : Making the agents and the behavior.

Proposal :

• Simulating The Process and Result of A Borough’s Growth
• We believe that there is a pattern in NY boroughs’ growth that leads to waves of gentrification with little cooperation of the existing condition. The process attracts different mix of people / population density, yet also forces out existing residents and business that couldn’t keep up with the development that lends the borough’s current state. So, to prevent homogenization and to simulate a balance, we believe that the existing fabric and new development should work hand in hand in all scales. We hope that we can learn about simulating the growth of a borough by experimenting on finding a balance between the existing fabric and the new development to create a rich ‘system’.

Agents :

• Block
• Street
• Parks
• Building — height, width, function
• Traffic — vehicles, traffic lights, highway
• Land price, real estate price
• People — 1st generation : artists, college students, and existing residents (poor), 2nd generation : mid income worker,hip restaurants, startups, 3rd generation : corporate, expensive retails, restaurants
• Train stops
• Waste *

Environment : 40 blocks. ( Mid Town Borough)

Time : 10 year period

• Building : Behavior : as land price goes up, more taller building developments
• Traffic : Behavior : as more buildings and more mix of programs, more traffic congestion and introduction of metro system
• People : Behavior : as land price goes up, existing residents either stay or leave and new generations of people coming
• Growth of neighborhood. Influence of land and rent price influence a new dense environment

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