Learning from Designing Cities in Silico

The chapter introduces our research with innovative methods and technologies for urban and regional design, using integrated micro-simulation models, with the aim of comparing different possible scenarios of territorial development and mobility layout. We analysed how development paths might be modified at a metropolitan or regional scale so that the designs of the transformations could be matched with general aims taken as guidelines — the design scenarios. Simulation of the scenarios is in fact a way of checking for deviations and contradictions and initiating potential processes of open learning.