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CASA Working Paper 189
CASA Working Paper 189. 5 March 2013. The growth of London's street network in its dual representation. We study the growth of London’s street-network in its dual representation, as the city has evolved over the last 224 years. The dual…
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CASA Working Paper 188
CASA Working Paper 188. 5 October 2012. Smart Cities of the Future. In this paper we sketch the rudiments of what constitutes a smart city which we define as a city in which ICT is merged with traditional infrastructures, coordinated and integrated…
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CASA Working Paper 187
CASA Working Paper 187. 13 August 2012. Urban and Regional Modelling: The Science and Contributions to Planning. What are we modelling and why? Models are representations of theories of systems of interest. Urban and regional models are…
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CASA Working Paper 186
CASA Working Paper 186. 16 July 2012. A global model of human migration. The United Nations (UN) defines human migration as the movement of people from one place in the world to another for the purpose of taking up permanent or semipermanent…
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CASA Working Paper 185
CASA Working Paper 185. 24 May 2012. Entropy, complexity and Spatial Information. We pose the central problem of defining a measure of complexity, specifically for spatial systems in general, city systems in particular. The measures we adopt are…
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CASA Working Paper 184
CASA Working Paper 184. 17 May 2012. Global migration modelling: A review of key policy needs and research centres. When addressing real world problems in international migration research, invariably the topic of migration-related policy comes to…
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CASA Working Paper 183
CASA Working Paper 183. 15 May 2012. Estimating intra-metropolitan journey-to-work CO2 emissions: a multi-modal. network approach applied to the London Region 2001. This paper develops a methodology for estimating network distances and CO2 emissions…
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CASA Working Paper 182
CASA Working Paper 182. 23 April 2012. Modelling maritine piracy: a spatial approach. This paper presents an initial demonstration of a model to generate dynamic patterns of maritime piracy. Model details, outputs and a method for assessing the…
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CASA Working Paper 181
CASA Working Paper 181. 28 March 2012. Estimating flows between geographical locations: ‘get me started in’ spatial interaction Modelling. In geography and demography, understanding the flows of people, goods or capital between origins and…
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CASA Working Paper 180
CASA Working Paper 180. 21 February 2012. A mathematical challenge: the centre size distribution in a dynamic retail model. The standard retail model can be constructed as follows (cf. Wilson, 1970). Let {Sij} be a matrix of money flows from…
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