Urbansim Documentation

Documentation is never, it seems, suffcient. It seems to be either insufficiently detailed to allow a user to figure out how to do something, or too detailed to allow a user to find what they need, or it is written from a perspective that is too theoretical or too applied, or not close enough to the user's perspective. We, the UrbanSim developers, have probably been guilty of all of the above. So, while we provide a link below to the 'official' user guide, we are enlisting the help of the user community -- that is -- you, to help us create world class, useful documentation, on this site. This site is a wiki, which means once you are registered, you can edit any pages that you have permissions to edit based on the group you are assigned to. We are making the documentation section editable by anyone who wants to help. So if you have something to contribute, please contact us and we'll add you to the Editor group!

Research Papers

UrbanSim Lectures and Webinars

Screen Shots of the Graphical User Interface

Some ScreenShots from the 4.3 stable release.

User Guide

The following are snapshots of the documentation generated by UrbanSim developers. We are beginning the process of converting these to the wiki, and encouraging users to help with this process. The wiki documentation is below.

Guide for the latest stable release: pdf; html.

Guide for the latest development version: pdf; html.

Development Environment Tips and Tricks

• Setting up an optimized python environment
• About the hudson build server

UrbanSim Documentation Wiki

Frequently Asked Questions

The Parcel Version of UrbanSim: Data and models for running UrtbanSim at a parcel level.

The Gridcell Version of UrbanSim: Data and models for running UrtbanSim at a gridcell level.

The Zone Version of UrbanSim: Data and models for running UrtbanSim at a zone level.

Demographic Evolution Models

Firmographic Models?

UrbanVision

Tutorials

Examples

Presentations

UrbanSim REST