Urban Analytics - Singleton, Alex David

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Auteur(s) : Singleton, Alex David - Spielman, Seth - Folch, David

Editeur : Sage Publications

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/01/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 200

Expédition : 544

Dimensions : 24.4 x 17.0 x 1.5

ISBN : 9781473958623

Résumé :
With lots of illustrations and interviews with key urban analysts, this book 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.

Biographie:

Alex Singleton is Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool, where he entered as a lecturer in 2010. He holds a BSc (Hons) Geography from the University of Manchester and a PhD from University College London. To date, his research income totals around ?15m, with two career highlights including the ESRC funded Consumer Data Research Centre; and the recently awarded ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training in New Forms of Data. Alex?s research is embedded within the Geographic Data Science Lab (geographicdatascience.com) and concerns various aspects of urban analytics. In particular, his work has extended a tradition of area classification within Geography where he has developed an empirically informed critique of the ways in which geodemographic methods can be refined for effective yet ethical use in public resource allocation applications.?

Sommaire:
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