Limit sets for natural extensions of Schelling's segregation model

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2010.10.007MaRDI QIDQ718609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abhinav Singh, Dmitri Vainchtein, Howard Weiss

Publication date 23 September 2011

Published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.2736

zbMATH Keywords

latticeaggregationsocial sciencesSchelling's model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical geography and demography (91D20)

Abstract: Thomas Schelling developed an influential demographic model that illustrated how, even with relatively mild assumptions on each individual's nearest neighbor preferences, an integrated city would likely unravel to a segregated city, even if all individuals prefer integration. Individuals in Schelling's model cities are divided into two groups of equal number and each individual is 'happy' or 'unhappy' when the number of similar neighbors cross a simple threshold. In this manuscript we consider natural extensions of Schelling's original model to allow the two groups have different sizes and to allow different notions of happiness of an individual. We observe that differences in aggregation patterns of majority and minority groups are highly sensitive to the happiness threshold; for low threshold, the differences are small, and when the threshold is raised, striking new patterns emerge. We also observe that when individuals strongly prefer to live integrated neighborhoods, the final states exhibit a new tessellated-like structure.

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