Urban Dynamics and Spatial Choice Behaviour
Thi s book ari ses from The Fourth European Coll oqui urn on Theoret i ca 1 and Quant itat i ve Geography wh i ch was he 1 din Ve 1 dhoven, The Netherlands in September 1985. It contains a series of papers on spatial choice dynamics and dynamical spatial
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THEORY AND DECISION LIBRARY AN lNTERNATIONAL SERIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY AND METIIODOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Editors University of Technology, Munich WERNER LElNFELLNER, University of Technology, Vienna GERALD EBERLEIN,
Editorial Advisory Board: K. BORCH, Norwegian
School of Economics and Business Administration M. BUNGE, McGill
J. S. COLEMAN,
University
University of Chicago
W. KROEBER-RIEL,
University of Saarland
University of Toronto A. SEN, Oxford University w. STEGMiJLLER, University of Munich K. SZANIAWSKI, University of Warsaw L. TONDL, Prague A.RAPOPORT,
A. TVERSKY, Stqnford University
VOLUME 49
URBAN DYNAMICS AND SPATIAL CHOICE BEHAVIOUR
Edited by JOOST HAUER Department of Geography, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
HARRY TIMMERMANS Department of Urban Planning, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
and NEIL WRIGLEY Department of Town Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON
ISBN-13: 978-94-010-6944-1 DOl: 10.1 007/978-94-009-1009-6
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-1009-6
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PREFACE
Thi s book ari ses from The Fourth European Coll oqui urn on Theoret i ca 1 and Quant itat i ve Geography wh i ch was he 1din Ve 1dhoven, The Netherlands in September 1985. It contains a series of papers on spatial choice dynamics and dynamical spatial systems which were presented at the colloquium, together with a few other soll icited ones. The book is intended primarily as a state-of-the art review of mainly European research on these two fastly growing problem areas. As a consequence of this decision, the book contains a selection of papers that differs in terms of focus, level of sophistication and conceptual background. Evidently, the dissimination of ideas and computer software is a time-related phenomenon, which in the European context is amplified by differences in language, the profile of geography and the formal training of geographers. The book reflects such differences. It would have been impossible to produce this book without the support of the various European study groups on theoretical and quantitative geography. Without their help the meetings from whi