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CASA Working Paper 135
CASA Working Paper 135. 1 May 2008. Evolution and turnover in scaling systems. Scaling has been discovered in the long tails of size distributions characterizing a variety of diverse systems, many of which evolve in terms of the size of their…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 133
CASA Working Paper 133. 1 April 2008. Constructing and Implementing an Agent-Based Model of Residential Segregation through Vector GIS. In this paper, we present a geographically explicit agent-based model, loosely coupled with vector GIS, which…
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CASA Working Paper 132
CASA Working Paper 132. 1 March 2008. Collaborative Mapping of London Using Google Maps: The LondonProfiler. This paper begins by reviewing the ways in which the innovation of Google Maps has transformed our ability to reference and view…
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CASA Working Paper 128
CASA Working Paper 128. 1 February 2008. Urban and regional dynamics - 1: a core model. It is generally recognised that there are important interdependencies that govern the development of urban and regional systems and that these can in principle…
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CASA Working Paper 129
CASA Working Paper 129. 1 February 2008. Urban and regional dynamics - 2: an hierarchical model of interacting regions. It is argued that there are at least four distinct levels at which it is appropriate to build urban and regional models, and that…
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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…
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CASA Working Paper 131
CASA Working Paper 131. 1 February 2008. Cities as Complex Systems: Scaling, Interactions, Networks, Dynamics and Urban Morphologies. Cities have been treated as systems for fifty year but only in the last two decades has the focus changed from…
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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…
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CASA Working Paper 125
CASA Working Paper 125. 1 December 2007. Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World. Digital cities are moving well beyond their original conceptions as entities representing the way computers and communications are hard wired into the…
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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…
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