Chris Brunsdon - Geocomputation: A Practical Primer

For Melissa, Erin, Theo and Max

Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton 2015

James Cheshire and Robin Lovelace 2015

Paul M. Torrens 2015

Michael Batty 2015

Andrew Crooks 2015

Mark Birkin 2015

Harvey J. Miller 2015

David Rohde and Jonathan Corcoran 2015

Alexandros Alexiou and Alex Singleton 2015

Seth Spielman and David C. Folch 2015

Daniel Lewis 2015

Melanie Tomintz, Graham Clarke and Nawaf Alfadhli 2015

Tomoki Nakaya 2015

Karyn Morrissey 2015

Sergio J. Rey 2015

Chris Brunsdon and Lex Comber 2015

Oliver OBrien 2015

Richard Kingston 2015

First published 2015

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CONTENTS

Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton

James Cheshire and Robin Lovelace

Paul M. Torrens

Michael Batty

Andrew Crooks

Kirk Harland and Mark Birkin

Harvey J. Miller

David Rohde and Jonathan Corcoran

Alexandros Alexiou and Alex Singleton

Seth Spielman and David C. Folch

Daniel Lewis

Melanie Tomintz, Graham Clarke and Nawaf Alfadhli

Tomoki Nakaya

Karyn Morrissey

Sergio J. Rey

Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton

Chris Brunsdon and Lex Comber

Oliver OBrien

Richard Kingston

Chris Brunsdon and Alex Singleton

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Alexandros Alexiou holds a degree in Spatial Planning and Survey Engineering from the University of Thessaly, as well as an MSc in Transport Planning from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MPhil in Planning from the University of Cambridge. Alexandros is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool, with research interests in the creation of new models of urban socio-spatial structure that better account for both geographic context and the dynamics of population.

Nawaf Alfadhli is a PhD candidate at the School of Geography, University of Leeds. His PhD is on the subject of the deployment of GIS techniques within the crime field in the local authority of Kuwait. By using a mixture of location-allocation and spatial interaction models Nawaf is building a decision support system for use by local planners in Kuwait to help them monitor, analyse and prevent criminal activity through the better deployment of resources over space and time.

Michael Batty is Professor of Urban Planning at University College London where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). His research and the work of his centre is focused on computer models of city systems. In recent years he has been awarded the William Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association, the University Consortium GIS Research Award and the Laurat Prix International de Gographie Vautrin Lud. His research has focused on the development of analytical methods and computer models for simulating the structure of cities and regions. His work began with aggregate land use transport models, and he then moved into more visual representations of cities and their models, more recently focusing on complexity theory as reflected in his blogs www.complexcity.info and www.spatialcomplexity.info .

Mark Birkin is Professor of Spatial Analysis and Policy in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. His major interests are in simulating social and demographic change within cities and regions, and in understanding the impact of these changes on the need for services such as housing, roads and hospitals, using techniques of microsimulation, agent-based modelling and GIS. He is currently the project leader for TALISMAN the spatial data analysis and simulation node of the ESRCs National Centre for Research Methods.

Chris Brunsdon is Professor of Geocomputation and Director of the National Centre for Geocomputation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He obtained his BSc at the University of Durham and his MSc and PhD at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has been involved in a number of spatial analysis and GIS projects in the UK. His research interests include: reproducible research; exploratory spatial data analysis and visualisation; spatial statistics; Bayesian approaches; health data analysis and the analysis of crime patterns. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals and has sat on a number of assessment panels for research funding institutions.

James Cheshire completed a BSc in Physical Geography at the University of Southampton before undertaking his PhD in Geographical Information Science at the Department of Geography of University College London (UCL). His topic concerned the spatial analysis and visualisation of large surname databases. Since completing his PhD he has been a Lecturer in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at CASA and is now a Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography at UCL. Aside from his academic outputs, a wide range of his maps and visualisations have been featured in the popular print press (such as the National Geographic and the Guardian) as well as online. He enjoys blogging both for spatial.ly and mappinglondon.co.uk.

Graham Clarke is Professor of Business Geography at the University of Leeds. He has worked extensively in various areas of GIS and applied spatial modelling, focusing on many applications within urban/social geography. A major research interest has been spatial microsimulation, a technique for estimating missing data and producing detailed household datasets for use in a wealth of social science simulations (especially income, wealth, crime and health applications). Graham has also been very active in retail geography and retail store location research. A major contribution to research in retail location planning has been to rethink the research agenda on store location in relation to the multi-channel growth strategies of retail organisations. An important additional research stream has been work on retail provision, saturation and internationalisation.