GeoSchelling Model (Points & Polygons)#
Summary#
This is a geoversion of a simplified Schelling example.
GeoSpace#
The NUTS-2 regions are considered as a shared definition of neighborhood among all people agents, instead of a locally defined neighborhood such as Moore or von Neumann.
GeoAgent#
There are two types of GeoAgents: people and regions. Each person resides in a randomly assigned region, and checks the color ratio of its region against a pre-defined “happiness” threshold at every time step. If the ratio falls below a certain threshold (e.g., 40%), the agent is found to be “unhappy”, and randomly moves to another region. People are represented as points, with locations randomly chosen within their regions. The color of a region depends on the color of the majority population it contains (i.e., point in polygon calculations).
How to run#
To run the model interactively, run mesa runserver
in this directory. e.g.
mesa runserver
Then open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8521/ and press Start
.