Geographical Modeling: Cities and Territories (Science, Society and New Technologies: Modeling Methodologies in Social Sciences, 2) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786304902 ISBN 13: 9781786304902

Publisher: Wiley-ISTE, 2020

Synopsis

The modeling of cities and territories has progressed greatly in the last 20 years. This is firstly due to geographic information systems, followed by the availability of large amounts of georeferenced data both on the Internet and through the use of connected objects. In addition, the rise in performance of computational methods for the simulation and exploration of dynamic models has facilitated advancement. Geographical Modeling presents previously unpublished information on the main advances achieved by these new approaches. Each of the six chapters builds a bibliographic review and precisely describes the methods used, highlighting their advantages and discussing their interpretations. They are all illustrated by many examples. The book also explains with clarity the theoretical foundations of geographical analysis, the delicate operations of model selection, and the applications of fractals and scaling laws. These applications include gaining knowledge of the morphology of cities and the organization of urban transport, and finding new methods of building and exploring simulation models and visualizations of data and results.

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About the Author

Denise Pumain is Professor at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (France), co founder of the CNRS Geographie-cités laboratory and Director of Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography. She participates in the development of numerous models for an evolutionary theory of cities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786304902
• ISBN 13: 9781786304902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Pumain Denise