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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…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Working Paper 138
CASA Working Paper 138. 1 July 2008. Geddes at MyAV·¶ "There was something more in town planning than met the eye!". Patrick Geddes was at MyAV·¶ 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 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…
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 MyAV·¶ "There was something more in town planning than met the eye!". Patrick Geddes was at MyAV·¶ 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