Besides the urban sprawl of housing, many regions suffer from an employment shift from city centres to the suburbs. A simulation model has been developed that analyses alternative strategies for limiting the suburbanisation of employment. It applies microsimulation by representing single...

New techniques to measure 2D and 3D visibility over urban spaces are presented in this paper. The concept of the isovist, that is, the visible space from a vantage point, could help in providing a quantifiable basis for Lynch’s urban analysis, as outlined in his book [Lynch, 1960 <i>The Image of...</i>

It has long been argued that the housing market is spatially compartmentalized within a metropolitan area. The argument has important implications for explaining how the housing market works—should the status quo be seen as an equilibrium state? Or if no equilibrium is reached, how do loosely...

The effect of weather elements on the incidence of different types of crime has been the focus of a number of research studies. However, the detailed geographical dimension of this relationship has been largely ignored. The aim of this paper is to broaden the research on weather and crime to...

Several attempts have already been made to use telecommunications networks for urban research, but the datasets employed have typically been neither dynamic nor fine grained. Against this research backdrop the mobile phone network offers a compelling compromise between these extremes: it is both...

New Urbanism is often presented as an improvement over conventional suburban development along economic, social, and environmental lines. While the economic and social claims of New Urbanism have been investigated, relatively little work has examined the potential environmental impacts of New...

Cellular automata (CA) are an effective means of urban-growth simulation. Moreover, the development of a planning support system associated with the theory of artificial intelligence has recently become a new global challenge. In this paper we investigate a geosimulation model using CA based on...

This paper provides an empirical comparison between utility-maximization and regret-minimization perspectives of spatial-choice behaviour. The key difference between these two perspectives is that the regret-minimization perspective implies that the anticipated satisfaction associated with a...