Spatial Representation and Spatial Interaction (Studies in Applied Regional Science)

I. Masser; P. Brown

ISBN 10: 9020707175 / ISBN 13: 9789020707175

Published by Springer, 1978

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Fair/ usable reading copy in worn chipped covers. 212pp. Former-university library copy with associated markings. Book cover creased and rubbed. Internally clean with no annotations or highlighting. Pages naturally yellowed. A sticker has marked the bottom edge of the book, but the text in unaffected. Offered as a usable study copy only. Photo on request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spatial Representation and Spatial Interaction (Studies in Applied Regional Science)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9020707175
• ISBN 13: 9789020707175
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

In recent years the development of spatial referencing techniques in com­ puter-based information systems has enormously increased the opportuni­ ties that exist for the treatment and presentation of both point and interaction data. The extent of this increase has drawn attention to the need for special aggregation and clustering procedures to be developed which enable data to be grouped in an efficient way for analytical pur­ poses with a minimum loss of detail. In the case of interaction data, economy of representation is particularly important as the analysis is further complicated by the two-way directionality that is inherent in each data set. Procedural rules of this kind are needed not only for descriptive analy­ sis and spatial accounting but also for hypothesis testing and the develop­ ment of operational models of spatial interaction. Yet the importance of spatial representation in this kind of research has only recently been fully understood. The first generation of urban development models that were developed in Europe and North America during the 1960's often treated matters of zoning system specification very casually, even though in some cases this imposed severe limits on the interpretation of their findings and it was not until the Centre for Environmental Studies/Cheshire project (Barras et al. , 1971) that a serious attempt was made to put forward general principles which could be used as guidelines in future work.