Recent theoretical and methodological advances in urban sociology, including spatially
located data, provide new opportunities to consider the joint influence of mobility and place …

As an alternative means of convenient and smart transportation, mobility-on-demand (MOD),
typified by online ride-sharing and connected taxicabs, has been rapidly growing and …

Urban planners and economists alike have strong interest in understanding the inter-
dependency of land use and people flow. The two-pronged problem entails systematic …

Timely forecasting the urban anomaly events in advance is of great importance to the city
management and planning. However, anomaly event prediction is highly challenging due to …

This paper proposes Group-In, a wireless scanning system to detect static or mobile people
groups in indoor or outdoor environments. Group-In collects only wireless traces from the …

Crime has been previously explained by social characteristics of the residential population
and, as stipulated by crime pattern theory, might also be linked to human movements of non …

As Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) have become widely used by users,
understanding user engagement and predicting user churn are essential to the …

This paper introduces an extensible framework to predict small-business closures to inform
urban planners, lenders, and business owners as to factors to improve business resilience …

The survival of a business is undeniably pertinent to its success. A key factor contributing to
its continuity depends on its customers. The surge of location-based social networks such as …

Planning administrations are concerned with the diffusion of art. The concept of the Creative
City has encouraged planners to develop cultural policies to support creative economies …