The United States' metropolitan areas' ever-changing economies, demographics, and
morphologies have fostered opportunity for some and hardship for others. These differential …

Urban land-use modeling methods have experienced substantial improvements in the last
several decades. With the advancement of urban land-use change theories and modeling …

This paper explores the impact of urban parks on real estate prices making use of a hedonic
price approach. Focusing on Brisbane, Australia, as a case study site, we use spatial …

While physical changes have been empirically recognised as a fundamental component of
neighbourhood change, data and modelling constraints have limited the quantification of …

This book has emerged through years of discussions, comments and questions we have
received about building agentbased models and integrating geographical information …

We present a method for automatically identifying and validating predictive relationships
between the visual appearance of a city and its non-visual attributes (eg crime statistics …

Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important
within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of …

The study of land use change in urban and regional systems has been dramatically
transformed in the last four decades by the emergence and application of cellular automata …

An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that
accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the …

Within this chapter we focus on the integration of Geographical Information System (GIS)
and Agent-based modelling (ABM) and review a selection of toolkits which allow for such …