Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics

by Jiang, Bin; Yao, Xiaobai; Batty, Michael

• ISBN13: 9789048185719
• ISBN10: 9048185718
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The increasingly urbanized world has created various problems of environment, climate, consumption of resources, and public health, which are closely linked to the side-effects of urbanization such as sprawl, congestion, housing affordability and loss of open space. Fundamental to the urban problems are two separate yet related issues: urban structure and urban dynamics. The chapters collected in this book present an excellent profile of the current state of geospatial analysis and modelling, and demonstrate how these approaches can contribute to the study of various urban issues. The book addresses key themes including new ways of capturing data digitally at the individual level, the development of systems based around networks, the notion of linking hierarchy to networks to morphology as in complexity theory, and the development of new ways of integrating diverse urban processes through simulation paying careful attention to the basic econometric and statistical principles of spatial analysis.With a foreword by Michael Batty and an epilog by Michael F. Goodchild

Table of Contents

Introduction
Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Urban Structure and Dynamics: An Overview	p. 3
Individual-Based Data Capture for Modeling Urban Structure and Dynamics
High-Resolution Geographic Data and Urban Modeling: The Case of Residential Segregation	p. 15
Space Syntax and Pervasive Systems	p. 31
Decentralized Spatial Computing in Urban Environments	p. 53
Modeling Urban Complexity and Hierarchy
Network Cities: A Complexity-Network Approach to Urban Dynamics and Development	p. 77
Scaling Analysis of the Cascade Structure of the Hierarchy of Cities	p. 91
Simulating and Modeling Urban Transportation Systems
The Dilemma of On-Street Parking Policy: Exploring Cruising for Parking Using an Agent-Based Model	p. 121
Multiscale Modeling of Virtual Urban Environments and Associated Populations	p. 139
Imageability and Topological Eccentricity of Urban Streets	p. 163
A Spatial Analysis of Transportation Convenience in Beijing: Users' Perception Versus Objective Measurements	p. 177
Object-Oriented Data Modeling of an Indoor/Outdoor Urban Transportation Network and Route Planning Analysis	p. 197
Analyzing and Modeling Urban Grown, Urban Changes and Impacts
Integration of Remote Sensing with GIS for Urban Growth Characterization	p. 223
Evaluating the Ecological and Environmental Impact of Urbanization in the Greater Toronto Area through Multi-Temporal Remotely Sensed Data and Landscape Ecological Measures	p. 251
Modeling Urban Effects on the Precipitation Component of the Water Cycle	p. 265
Interpolating a Consumption Variable for Scaling and Generalizing Potential Population Pressure on Urbanizing Natural Areas	p. 293
Modeling Cities as Spatio-Temporal Places	p. 311
Studying Other Urban Problems Using Geospatial Analysis and Modeling
Geospatial Analysis and Living Urban Geometry	p. 331
Analyzing Spatial Patterns of Late-Stage Breast Cancer in Chicago Region: A Modified Scale-Space Clustering Approach	p. 355
Influence of Job Accessibility on Housing Market Processes: Study of Spatial Stationarity in the Buffalo and Seattle Metropolitan Areas	p. 373
How do Socioeconomic Characteristics Interact with Equity and Efficiency Considerations? An Analysis of Hurricane Disaster Relief Goods Provision	p. 393
Visualizing and Diagnosing Coefficients from Geographically Weighted Regression Models	p. 415
Epilog	p. 437
Index	p. 443
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