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230 BERLING-WOLFF AND WU
Three scenarios
Scenario 1 represented the continuation of development status quo. Developers continued
to provide large, single-family dwellings as the market demands, and the density and growth
rates remained at the 1995 rates. Recreation areas , particularly parks, are an important part
of urban development. Using 2002 statistics of the current population, number of parks and
average park size for Peoria (one city in the Phoenix metropolitan area), we derived parameters
for modeling park creation in a fast developing city in this region. Specifically, the model
Figure 5. Comparison of the spatial patterns between the empirical and simulated maps using landscape metrics
at the whole landscape level (A, C, E, G, I, K) and the urban class level (B, D, F, H, J, L).
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