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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 142
CASA Working Paper 142. 1 August 2008. The Renaissance of Geographic Information: Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life. Web 2.0, specifically The Cloud, GeoWeb and Wikitecture are revolutionising the way in which we present, share and analyse…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 143
CASA Working Paper 143. 1 August 2008. Mapping for the Masses: Accessing Web 2.0 through Crowdsourcing. We first develop the network paradigm that is currently dominating the way we think about the internet and introduce varieties of social…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 145
CASA Working Paper 145. 1 August 2008. Social Deprivation and Digital Exclusion in England. Issues of digital exclusion are now increasingly considered alongside those of material deprivation when formulating interventions in neighbourhood renewal…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 143
CASA Working Paper 143. 1 August 2008. Mapping for the Masses: Accessing Web 2.0 through Crowdsourcing. We first develop the network paradigm that is currently dominating the way we think about the internet and introduce varieties of social…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 137
CASA Working Paper 137. 1 July 2008. The 'thermodynamics' of the city. The methods of statistical mechanics have been successfully applied in urban modelling and there has been some attempt at the interpretation of the results in terms of…
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…
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CASA Working Paper 138
CASA Working Paper 138. 1 July 2008. Geddes at UCL "There was something more in town planning than met the eye!". Patrick Geddes was at UCL from 1877 to 1878 although as a student of physiology, not as the 'father of British Town Planning' as he was…
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CASA Working Paper 140
CASA Working Paper 140. 1 July 2008. Exploring urban retail phase transitions - 1: an analysis system. A key area in the analysis of the evolution of urban structure through modelling is identifying phase transitions. At these critical points, the…
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CASA Working Paper 137
CASA Working Paper 137. 1 July 2008. The 'thermodynamics' of the city. The methods of statistical mechanics have been successfully applied in urban modelling and there has been some attempt at the interpretation of the results in terms of…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis