Geospatial analysis and modelling of urban structure and dynamics /

Geospatial analysis and modelling of urban structure and dynamics / ed by Bin jiang and Xiaobai Yao - Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. - xxxiii, 445 p.

Foreword Michael Batty--
Acknowledgements--
Biographies of the Editors and Contributors--
I Introduction:--
1. Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Urban Structure and Dynamics: An Overview--
II. Individual-Based Data Capture for Modeling Urban Structure and Dynamics--
2. High-resolution Geographic Data and Urban Modeling: The Case of Residential Segregation--
3. Space Syntax and Pervasive Systems--
4. Decentralized Spatial Computing in Urban Environments--
III. Modeling Urban Complexity and Hierarchy--
5. Network Cities: a Complexity-Network Approach to Urban Dynamics and Development--
6. Scaling Analysis of the Cascade Structure of the Hierarchyof Cities--
IV. Simulating and Modeling Urban Transportation Systems--
7. The Dilemma of On-street Parking Policy: Exploring Cruising for Parking Using an Agent-based Model--
8. Multiscale Modeling of Virtual Urban Environments and Associated Populations--
9. Imageability and Topological Eccentricity of Urban Streets.- 10. A Spatial Analysis of Transportation Convenience in Beijing:Users' Perception versus Objective Measurements--
11. Object-oriented Data Modeling of an Indoor/outdoor Urban Transportation Network and Route Planning Analysis--
V. Analyzing and Modeling Urban Grown, Urban Changes and Impacts--
12. Integration of Remote Sensing with GIS for Urban Growth Characterization--
13. Evaluating the Ecological and Environmental Impact of Urbanization in the Greater Toronto Area through Multi-Temporal Remotely Sensed Data and Landscape Ecological Measures-- 14. Modeling Urban Effects on the Precipitation Component of the Water Cycle--
15. Interpolating a Consumption Variable for Scaling and Generalizing Potential Population Pressure on Urbanizing Natural Areas--
16. Modeling Cities as Spatio-Temporal Places--
VI. Studying other Urban Problems Using Geospatial Analysis and Modeling--
17. Geospatial Analysis and Living Urban Geometry--
18. Analyzing Spatial Patterns of Late-StageBreast Cancer in Chicago Region: A Modified Scale-Space Clustering Approach-- 19. Influence of Job Accessibility on Housing Market Processes: Study of spatial stationarity in the Buffalo and Seattle metropolitan areas--
20. How do Socioeconomic Characteristics Interact with Equity and Efficiency Considerations? An Analysis of Hurricane Disaster Relief Goods Provision--
21. Visualizing and Diagnosing Coefficients from Geographically Weighted Regression Models.- Epilog Michael F. Goodchild.- Index


A Coming of Age: Geospatial Analysis and Modelling in the Early Twenty First Century Forty years ago when spatial analysis first emerged as a distinct theme within geography's quantitative revolution, the focus was largely on consistent methods for measuring spatial correlation.

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