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Urban Analytics (Spatial Analytics and GIS)

By Alex David Singleton; Seth Spielman; David Folch

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
2017
ISBN
1473958628, 9781473958623
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7072548 bytes)
Series
Spatial Analytics and GIS
Edition
1
Pages
200\0
Topic
Geography
Time added
2020-06-08 16:39:50
Geographical Information SystemsGISSpatial AnalyticsUrban Analytics

Description

The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization. At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has changed dramatically. Urban Analytics offers a field-defining look at the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Remote Sensing, Big Data and Geodemographics. Written in an accessible style and packed with illustrations and interviews from key urban analysts, this is a groundbreaking new textbook for students of urban planning, urban design, geography, and the information sciences. Questioning the City through Urban Analytics Sensing the City Urban Data Infrastructure Visualizing the City Differences within Cities Explaining the City Generative Urban Systems Cities as Networks and Flows The Future of Urban Analytics

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