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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…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 139
CASA Working Paper 139. 1 July 2008. Macro and Micro Dynamics of City Size Distributions: The Case of Israel. We study the distribution of sizes in the Israeli system of cities, using a rank-size representation of population distributions from 1950…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
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…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
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…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 139
CASA Working Paper 139. 1 July 2008. Macro and Micro Dynamics of City Size Distributions: The Case of Israel. We study the distribution of sizes in the Israeli system of cities, using a rank-size representation of population distributions from 1950…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 136
CASA Working Paper 136. 1 June 2008. Modifying a Geodemographic Classification of the e-Society using public feedback. The e-Society geodemographic classification (Longley et al., 2008) categories neighbourhoods based on their engagement with new…
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CASA Working Paper 136
CASA Working Paper 136. 1 June 2008. Modifying a Geodemographic Classification of the e-Society using public feedback. The e-Society geodemographic classification (Longley et al., 2008) categories neighbourhoods based on their engagement with new…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 134
CASA Working Paper 134. 1 May 2008. Creating Open Source Geodemographic Classifications for Higher Education Applications. This paper explores the use of geodemographic classifications to investigate the social, economic and spatial dimensions of…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
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 134
CASA Working Paper 134. 1 May 2008. Creating Open Source Geodemographic Classifications for Higher Education Applications. This paper explores the use of geodemographic classifications to investigate the social, economic and spatial dimensions of…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis