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CASA Working Paper 118
CASA Working Paper 118. 1 March 2007. Setting Children Free: Children's Independent Movement in the Local Environment. Parental concerns about children's safety and security are restricting children's independent exploration of the local environment.…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 117
CASA Working Paper 117. 1 March 2007. Complexity in City Systems: Understanding, Evolution, and Design. As we learn more about the world and reflect on its meaning, an overwhelming sense of inadequacy in our ability to both understand and change it…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 116
CASA Working Paper 116. 1 March 2007. The Cultural, Ethnic and Linguistic Classification of Populations and Neighbourhoods using Personal Names. There are growing needs to understand the nature and detailed composition of ethnic groups in today's…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 114
CASA Working Paper 114. 1 February 2007. Psychosocial implications of blindness and low-vision. This article discusses several aspects of psychosocial adjustment to blindness and low-vision and proposes that the education of both the self and…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 113
CASA Working Paper 113. 1 February 2007. Model Cities. The term 'model' is now central to our thinking about how we understand and design cities. We suggest a variety of ways in which we use 'models', linking these ideas to Abercrombie's exposition…
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CASA Working Paper 112
CASA Working Paper 112. 1 January 2007. Visualizing Creative Destruction. We introduce a series of methods for visualizing the dynamics of firm size as indicative of the way the creation of new economic entities destroy the existing order in the…
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CASA Working Paper 111
CASA Working Paper 111. 1 October 2006. The UK Geography of the E-Society: A National Classification. It is simplistic to think of the impacts of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in terms of a single, or even small number of,…
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CASA Working Paper 109
CASA Working Paper 109. 1 September 2006. Exploring cities using agent-based models and GIS. Cities are faced with many problems such as urban sprawl, congestion, and segregation. They are also constantly changing. Computer modelling is becoming an…
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CASA Working Paper 110
CASA Working Paper 110. 1 September 2006. Principles and Concepts of Agent-Based Modelling for Developing Geospatial Simulations. The aim of this paper is to outline fundamental concepts and principles of the Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) paradigm,…
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CASA Working Paper 107
CASA Working Paper 107. 1 July 2006. Beyond statistical testing: Individual differences and the content and accuracy of mental representations of space. The article uses data from two experiments on the content and accuracy of mental representations…
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