Geospatial analysis and modelling of urban structure and dynamic
[Book]
/ Bin Jiang, Xiaobai Yao, editors
; foreword by Michael Batty
Dordrecht ;London
: Springer,
, c2010.
1 online resource (xxxiii, 445 p.)
: , ill., maps.
(The GeoJournal library
; v. 99.)
Print
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 add.
Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics; Part 1: Introduction; Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Urban Structure and Dynamics: An Overview; Part 2: Individual-Based Data Capture for Modeling Urban Structure and Dynamics; High-Resolution Geographic Data and Urban Modeling: The Case of Residential Segregation; Space Syntax and Pervasive Systems; Decentralized Spatial Computing in Urban Environments; Part 3: Modeling Urban Complexity and Hierarchy; Network Cities: A Complexity-Network Approach to Urban Dynamics and Development.