Complex Spatial Systems: The Modelling Foundations of Urban and Regional Analysis

by Wilson,Alan Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780582418967
• ISBN10: 0582418968
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-01-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A comprehensive core text from the expert in the field introducing students to the main issues of spatial systems modelling and analysis.

Author Biography

Alan Wilson has been Professor of Urban and Regional Geography at the University of Leeds since 1970s; since 1991, he has been Vice-Chancellor of the University.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction
Cities and regions and 'big science'	1	(1)
Cities and regions as complex systems	1	(3)
The structure of the rest of the book	4	(2)
Cities and regions as complex spatial systems
The elements	6	(1)
The elements in more detail	7	(6)
Urban and regional systems at different scales: examples	13	(1)
A framework for analysis
Three principal dimensions	14	(1)
System articulation	14	(5)
Theory	19	(5)
Methods	24	(3)
Summary and conclusions	27	(3)
Conceptual foundations: urban and regional analysis as a multidisciplinary programme
Multidisciplinarity	30	(1)
The substantive disciplines	31	(6)
Methodological disciplines	37	(10)
The professional disciplines	47	(1)
Integrated disciplines: urban and regional studies	48	(1)
Concluding comments	48	(2)
Classical models
Introduction	50	(1)
Von Thunen's rings	51	(1)
Weber's triangle	52	(2)
Christaller's hexagons	54	(1)
More rings, with sectors and points: Burgess, Hoyt and Harris and Ullman	55	(1)
A mosaic of flows: elementary spatial interaction models	56	(1)
Concluding comments	57	(1)
Interaction and location
Introduction	58	(1)
An historical review: from the classical to the new	59	(3)
Spatial interaction models	62	(4)
The interaction model as a location model	66	(2)
Further concepts: interpretations and performance indicators	68	(2)
Structural dynamics	70	(8)
New theoretical foundations: a summary	78	(1)
Concluding comments	78	(2)
The rewriting of classical theory
Introduction	80	(1)
Agricultural location	80	(2)
Industrial location	82	(5)
Residential location and housing	87	(4)
Services	91	(1)
Transport	91	(1)
Urban and regional structure integrated comprehensive models	92	(1)
Concluding comments	93	(1)
The research agenda
The starting point: experience to date	94	(1)
Research opportunities	95	(2)
Opportunities from methodological developments	97	(2)
Applications of models in planning and problem-solving	99	(2)
Under-developed systems analysis	101	(6)
Ongoing research challenges	107	(5)
Integration and implementation	112	(2)
Appendix 1 The basic notation and some examples	114	(38)
Appendix 2 Geography's classical theorists
Introduction	118	(1)
Agricultural land use: von Thunen	118	(8)
The location of industry: Weber	126	(6)
Market areas and competing firms: Palander, Hoover and Hotelling	132	(2)
Central place theory	134	(12)
Urban structure and development: Burgess, Hoyt, Harris and Ullman	146	(3)
Interaction: the gravity model	149	(3)
Appendix 3. Inter-regional demographic and economic models	152	(2)
References	154	(11)
Index	165