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Modeling Urbanization Perception: Emerging Topics on Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City Development

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The complexity of the study on urban systems poses the challenging problem of developing methodological approaches for analyzing and modeling social data, both from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. This work presents the research conducted to explore the perception on the urban development of an high-tech zone which has been recently established in China, i.e. Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City. We conducted field research and collected data to identify which topics, concepts and interpretative categories are embedded in the social discourses about urban development and to derive the network of relations typical of complex social systems. The results of these analyses suggest that the perception of the people interviewed is mostly of great appreciation for the economic development with some concerns on the negative effects of this development on the society and the environment.

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This work was supported by the EU-CHINA Research and Innovation Partnership, EuropeAid/135-587/DD/ACT/Multi EU Project: New pathways for sustainable urban development in China’s medium-sized cities (MEDIUM). This publication has received funding from the European Union under the External actions of the European Union - Grant Contract ICI+/2014/348-005. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.

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  1. European Centre for Living Technology, S. Marco 2940, 30124, Venice, Italy

    Debora Slanzi, Valentina Anzoise & Irene Poli

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, via Torino 155, 30172, Venice, Italy

    Debora Slanzi & Irene Poli

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  1. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

    Marcello Pelillo

  2. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

    Irene Poli

  3. University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy

    Andrea Roli

  4. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Roberto Serra

  5. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

    Debora Slanzi

  6. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Marco Villani

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Slanzi, D., Anzoise, V., Poli, I. (2018). Modeling Urbanization Perception: Emerging Topics on Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City Development. In: Pelillo, M., Poli, I., Roli, A., Serra, R., Slanzi, D., Villani, M. (eds) Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. WIVACE 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 830. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78658-2_17

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