The 2nd
- Spatial Structure and Dynamics of Urban
Environments -
July 12 -13, 2007,
Sponsored by Mr. Charles Barton Rice Jr.
Program
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Registration at the Hotel ( An informal voluntary gathering
in the hotel lobby |
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(registration packets available in the concourse outside of room Kellogg) |
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Welcome & Introduction (Room Kellogg) |
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Keynote (Room Kellogg) Session chair: Scaling, Rank-Size and Allometry in
the Geometry of Large Cities |
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Refreshment break (concourse) |
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Session 1-1. Urban
Simulation and Modeling (I) (Room Kellogg) Session chair: Marshall Shepherd |
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Verda Kocabas and Suzana Dragicevic. Agent-based model validation using bayesian networks
and vector spatial data Geo-simulation model using CA for visualization of formative
years of land use in urban partitions Maria Plotnikova and Chokri Dridi. A cellular automata
simulation of the 1990s Russian housing privatization decision |
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Session 1-2.
Spatial analysis and data mining (Room F/G) Session chair: Mark Horner |
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Seth E. Spielman1 and 2 University of Social area analysis, data mining, and GIS Sungsoon Hwang1 and 2University of Delineating urban housing submarkets with
fuzzy clustering Jae-Seong Ahn1, Hwahwan Kim2, and Yang-Won Lee3 1 2 University of 3 University of Classification of
spatio-temporal data using temporal signature of local spatial association
measure: a data mining approach |
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Session 2-1.
Spatial Analysis and Modeling (Room Kellogg) Session chair: |
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James B. Holt1 and 2 University of The Geography of mortality in the Atlanta
Metropolitan Area Sergio J. Rey and Xinyue Ye, Exploring spatial dynamics in city size
distributions Dalia Varanka, Kriging and spatial interaction: a combined
approach for scaling and generalizing urbanization pressure on the
environment |
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Session 2-2. Urban
sprawl and structures (room F/G) Session chair : |
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Edmund Zolnik, The effect of sprawl on commute distances, times and
speeds in the United State Urban systems Carol
Atkinson-Palombo. Arizona State University, USA Minwuyelet Melesse, City Expansion,
Squatter Settlements and Policy Implications in Addis Ababa: the case of
kolfe Keranio Sub-City |
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Refreshment Break |
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Session 3-1: Urban Simulation and Modeling (II) (Room Kellogg) Session chair: Maria Plotnikova |
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Walid Chaker,Bernard Moulin, and Marius Theriault. Marshall Shepherd. Impacts of 2025 Urban Land Use in Houston on Precipitation Sylvie Occelli
and Luca Staricco. Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte, Italy Learning about Urban Mobility: Experiencing with a MAS Model |
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Session 3-2: Network
and accessibility (Room F/G) Session chair: Edmund Zolnik |
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Mark Horner, The A topological pattern of urban street networks:
universality and peculiarity Xiaobai Yao and Yuan Gao, Network Analysis of multiple route systems |
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Plenary Session Session chair: Xiaobai Yao Spaces, Proximity Relationships, and Scales in
Urban Spatial Analysis |
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Refreshment break |
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Session 4-1:
Spatial Analysis with telecommunication data (Room F/G) Session chair: |
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Jon Reades1 and Carlo Ratti2 2 MIT,
Towards a Cellular Census? Using mobile phone data to visualise
people flows in Rome, Italy Lan Mu1 and Rongzeng Liu2 1University
of 2 Zheng
Zhou University, Analyzing Intercity Connection from Telephone Records |
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Session 4-2: Images
and urban environments (Room Kellogg) Session chair: |
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Ranga Raju Vatsavai 1, Shashi Shekhar 2,
Thomas E. Burk 2, Budhendra Bjaduri 1 1 2 University of Adopting semi-supervised learning algorithms for mining
remote sensing imagery Dongmei Chen and Peter Luciani, Using fuzzy-set land
cover info from multi-temporal remotely sensed data to model the
environmental impact of urbanization at a regional scale Eugenio Morello
and Carlo Ratti 1 Politechnico Di Milano, Italy 2 MIT, A digital Image of the City: Kevin Lynch
Revisited |
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Concluding remarks
and discussion |
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