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CASA Working Paper 144
CASA Working Paper 144. 1 August 2008. Analyzing Urban Sprawl Patterns Through Fractal Geometry: The Case of Istanbul Metropolitan Area. Over the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in the amount of literature on the measurement of urban…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 141
CASA Working Paper 141. 1 July 2008. Phase transitions in urban evolution. Phase transitions in statistical mechanics are compared with discrete changes in the evolution of cities and regions. It is argued that these changes do have the character of…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 139
CASA Working Paper 139. 1 July 2008. Macro and Micro Dynamics of City Size Distributions: The Case of Israel. We study the distribution of sizes in the Israeli system of cities, using a rank-size representation of population distributions from 1950…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 141
CASA Working Paper 141. 1 July 2008. Phase transitions in urban evolution. Phase transitions in statistical mechanics are compared with discrete changes in the evolution of cities and regions. It is argued that these changes do have the character of…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 139
CASA Working Paper 139. 1 July 2008. Macro and Micro Dynamics of City Size Distributions: The Case of Israel. We study the distribution of sizes in the Israeli system of cities, using a rank-size representation of population distributions from 1950…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 130
CASA Working Paper 130. 1 February 2008. Urban and regional dynamics - 3: 'DNA' and 'genes' as a basis for constructing a typology of areas. This is the third paper in a series on urban and regional dynamics. They are intended to lay the basis for a…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 130
CASA Working Paper 130. 1 February 2008. Urban and regional dynamics - 3: 'DNA' and 'genes' as a basis for constructing a typology of areas. This is the third paper in a series on urban and regional dynamics. They are intended to lay the basis for a…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 126
CASA Working Paper 126. 1 December 2007. Scaling and Allometry in the Building Geometries of Greater London. Many aggregate distributions of urban activities such as city sizes reveal scaling but hardly any work exists on the properties of spatial…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 127
CASA Working Paper 127. 1 December 2007. Comparing Classifications: Some Preliminary Speculations on an Appropriate Scale for Neighbourhood Analysis with Reference to Geodemographic Information Systems. Geodemographic classifications represent the…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 126
CASA Working Paper 126. 1 December 2007. Scaling and Allometry in the Building Geometries of Greater London. Many aggregate distributions of urban activities such as city sizes reveal scaling but hardly any work exists on the properties of spatial…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis