| dc.description.abstract | After 30 years long ethnic crisis, Sri Lanka was recognized
as a place for development due to its inherent potentials as
an island nation. Currently, Colombo and main city centers
are experiencing the development boom while the world
has recognized countries’ potentials of development in
different ways. At the same time country is investigating
the plausibility of adopting smart urban planning solutions.
Since Urban Planning is a broader discipline, narrowing
down to physical urban planning factors and process of the
same is complex in its nature. It could be dealt with only
rationalize thinking and some general knowledge and
scientific aspects of planning.
World is yearning for fast and smart urbanization. Thus
urban planning paradigm is trying to link with other
supportive paradigms such as technology, software, social
science, etc. With that, new planning techniques and
technologies are being invented and currently used to an
affective urban planning process. As such Space Syntax,
Neural network, Cellular Automata (CA) model and Agent
Based Model (ABM) play a major role in that aspect.
Since 1970 ABM has been used for urban planning process
in multifarious stages and for multitude of purposes. This
paper mainly concentrates on the ABM as an urban
planning tool and its role in the urban planning process in
the Sri Lanka. Particularly to uplift the planning process and
as tool of fulfilling pitfall of the process. | |
