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.