TY - JOUR
T1 - Locust behavior and city topology
T2 - A biodynamic approach for assessing urban flows
AU - Guershon, Moshe
AU - Francos, Roee Mordechai
AU - Ayali, Amir
AU - Hatuka, Tali
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s)
PY - 2024/6/21
Y1 - 2024/6/21
N2 - A city's economic growth and the inhabitants’ wellbeing are highly affected by its topology and connecting networks, which, in turn, influence movement and flows in the city. Flow relates to how a city is developed, organized, managed, and built. The analysis of flow in cities is challenging but essential. In this study, the fields of urban design and animal science are combined, and a new approach for exploring the relationships between urban topology and physical flow is developed. Specifically, we establish an interdisciplinary methodology to evaluate mobility performance in various urban settings, utilizing experimental observations of the dynamic behavior of natural-biological agents, i.e., locusts, within physical city models. Our novel approach enriches the currently available toolbox by using living organisms as indicators for flow in physical city models. Our findings improve our understanding of the intricate flow interactions in urban settings.
AB - A city's economic growth and the inhabitants’ wellbeing are highly affected by its topology and connecting networks, which, in turn, influence movement and flows in the city. Flow relates to how a city is developed, organized, managed, and built. The analysis of flow in cities is challenging but essential. In this study, the fields of urban design and animal science are combined, and a new approach for exploring the relationships between urban topology and physical flow is developed. Specifically, we establish an interdisciplinary methodology to evaluate mobility performance in various urban settings, utilizing experimental observations of the dynamic behavior of natural-biological agents, i.e., locusts, within physical city models. Our novel approach enriches the currently available toolbox by using living organisms as indicators for flow in physical city models. Our findings improve our understanding of the intricate flow interactions in urban settings.
KW - Ecology
KW - Engineering
KW - Physics
KW - urban planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85192882717&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109922
DO - 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109922
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C2 - 38799584
AN - SCOPUS:85192882717
SN - 2589-0042
VL - 27
JO - iScience
JF - iScience
IS - 6
M1 - 109922
ER -