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CASA Working Paper 156
CASA Working Paper 156. 1 July 2010. Thermodynamic Potentials and Phase Change for Transport Systems. 'Thermodynamics of the City' (Wilson 2008) poses the question, in relation to the doubly constrained trip distribution model - What is Z?- where Z…
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CASA Working Paper 155
CASA Working Paper 155. 1 July 2010. From Buildings to Cities: Techniques for the Multi-Scale Analysis of Urban Form and Function. The built environment is a significant factor in many urban processes, yet direct measures of built form are seldom…
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CASA Working Paper 154
CASA Working Paper 154. 1 March 2010. Space, Scale, and Scaling in Entropy-Maximising. Entropy measures were first introduced into geographical analysis during a period when the concept of human systems as being in some sort of equilibrium was in…
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CASA Working Paper 153
CASA Working Paper 153. 1 February 2010. Developing Efficient Web-based GIS Applications. There is an increase in the number of web-based GIS applications over the recent years. This paper describes different mapping technologies, database standards,…
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CASA Working Paper 152
CASA Working Paper 152. 1 January 2010. Visualising Space-Time Dynamics in Scaling Systems. The signature of scaling in human systems is the well-known power law whose key characteristic is that the size distributions of the elements or objects that…
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CASA Working Paper 151
CASA Working Paper 151. 1 December 2009. UrbanDiary - A Tracking Project. This working paper investigates aspects of time in an urban environment, specifically the cycles and routines of everyday life in the city. As part of the UrbanDiary project…
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CASA Working Paper 150
CASA Working Paper 150. 1 October 2009. Choice and the composition of general practice patient registers. Choice of general practice (GP) in the National Health Service (NHS), the UKs universal healthcare service, is a core element in the current…
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CASA Working Paper 148
CASA Working Paper 148. 1 May 2009. 3D cities and numerical weather prediction models: An overview of the methods used in the LUCID project. Transferring spatial data between different types of spatial models is often a much trickier process than…
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CASA Working Paper 149
CASA Working Paper 149. 1 May 2009. Family Names as Indicators of Britain's Changing Regional Geography. In recent years the geography of surnames has become increasingly researched in genetics, epidemiology, linguistics and geography. Surnames…
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CASA Working Paper 147
CASA Working Paper 147. 1 April 2009. Virtual Geodemographics: Repositioning Area Classification for Online and Offline Spaces. Computer mediated communication and the Internet has fundamentally changed how consumers and producers connect and…
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