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

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17,3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Publishers incorporates the publishing programmes of D. Reidel, Martinus Nijhoff, Dr W. Junk and MTP Press. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

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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