Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-282) and index.
1. Introduction to urban geosimulation -- 2. Formalizing geosimulation with geographic automata systems (GAS) -- 3. System theory, geography, and urban modeling -- 4. Modeling urban land-use with cellular automata -- 5. Modeling urban dynamics with multiagent systems -- 6. Finale : epistemology of geosimulation.