Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to build the computer-simulation model of household location. The model consists of these four components: (1) household types by occupation, family income, savings, etc. (2) location categories, (3) preference-lists of location categories by each household type, (4) search procosses of household locations. After building the computer-simulation model, we have applied to forecast the future putterns of the Nagoya Metropolitan Area and to estimate the effect of public actions, such as zoning, code-enforcement, public housing supply etc.
