Logit Models for Spatial Interaction: Background -- COST-MINIMIZING BEHAVIOR - CONSTANT LINK COSTS -- Logit Models for Discrete Choice -- Some Particular Logit Models -- Welfare, Benefit and Freedom of Choice -- Graphical Tests of Cost-Minimizing Behavior in Logit Models -- Empirical and Policy...

The State-of-the-Art in Building Residential Location Models -- Stated Preference Examination of Factors Influencing Residential Attraction -- DRAM Residential Location and Land Use Model: 40 Years of Development and Application -- The DELTA Residential Location Model -- The MUSSA II Land Use...

Spatial Analysis -- Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis -- Spatial Interaction and Spatial Autocorrelation: A Cross-Product Approach -- Spatial Statistical Analysis and Geographic Information Systems -- Whose Hand on the Tiller? Revisiting “Spatial Statistical Analysis and GIS” -- Spatial...

Space is increasingly recognized as a legitimate factor that influences many processes and conceptual frameworks, including notions of spatial coherence and spatial heterogeneity that have been demonstrated to provide substance to both theory and explanation. The potential and relevance of...

During the last two decades a new growth theory has emerged - often labelled "endogenous economic growth". The contributions in the book develop these advances into a theoretical framework for endogenous regional economic growth and explain the implications for regional economic policies in the...

This book makes an attempt to provide evidence of the innovation processes across metropolitan regions studies based on the use of a common more rigid methodology. The comparison is based on three metropolitan regions situated in the South Western, South Eastern and Northern periphery of the...

This book provides a new collection of papers on applied regional science. It takes each of the main methodologies of the discipline and provides a case study of their use for policy making. The work reported in each chapter has been directly funded by the private sector or by major Government...

The book addresses the relationship between knowledge, complexity and innovation systems. It integrates research findings from a broad area including economics, business studies, management studies, geography, mathematics and science & technology contributions from a wide range group of...

Geocomputation may be viewed as the application of a computational science paradigm to study a wide range of problems in geographical systems contexts. This volume presents a clear, comprehensive and thoroughly state-of-the-art overview of current research, written by leading figures in the...