The selection of articles featured in this volume reflect a broad variety of new and established modeling approaches such as:
- An argument for using Big Data methods in conjunction with Agent-based Modeling;
- The introduction of a participatory approach involving citizens, in order to utilize an Agent-based Modeling approach to simulate urban-growth scenarios;
- A presentation of semantic modeling to enable a flexible application of modeling methods and a flexible exchange of data;
- An article about a nested-systems approach to analyzing a city’s interdependent subsystems (according to these subsystems’ different velocities of change);
- An article about methods that use Luhmann’s system theory to characterize cities as systems that are composed of flows;
- An article that demonstrates how the Sen-Nussbaum Capabilities Approach can be used in urban systems to measure household well-being shifts that occur in response to the resettlement of urban households;
- A final article that illustrates how Adaptive Cycles of Complex Adaptive Systems, as well as innovation, can be applied to gain a better understanding of cities and to promote more resilient and more sustainable urban futures.