Ourednik, André2009-07-262009-07-262009-07-26200910.1007/978-3-642-02454-2_14https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/41816WOS:000271635000014One of the main challenges of today’s analytical geography is the back-linking of observed phenomena to individual actions, as not determined by individuals’ structural situation in a one-goal society but by their very choice of spatial goals, i.e. by what shall be called individuals’ actor-dimension. In this paper we present an actor-based model of urban residential mobility. Results show that public policies in urban development must take into account and act on this actor-dimension if they are not to obtain effects opposite to their aims.actor-based modelingurban developmentresidential spacetheory of actiontext::book/monograph::book part or chapter