Publisher Summary This chapter reviews a concise survey and a set of reflections concerning
current regional and multiregional economic models. The notation “current” refers to the …

Peripherality generally connotes distance, difference and dependency. A typical periphery
is geographically remote, economically lagging, dependent upon external political and …

The paper treats some extensions of so-called entropy models. In a theoretical part some
crucial assumptions of such models are analyzed and it is shown that the models may be …

This book presents the fmdings of a comparative study of three European metropolitan
regions: Vienna, Barcelona and Stockholm. The heart of the work consists of empirical studies …

Our objective in this paper is to argue for a new use of geographic information systems—GIS
in local planning as an auxiliary tool for decision-making. We review the use of the GIS …

All the inhabitants of a city who participate in the choice of a place of residence are assumed
to have a propensity to visit the urban centre. The distribution of residential locations is …

Europe's space is in a flux. Earlier cores and peripheries in Europe are experiencing a
profound transformation. The driving forces include, amongst others, Western European …

This volume is the result of a particularly effective research collaboration between IIASA and
the Department of Regional Economics at the Free University of Amsterdam. The objective …

The aim of the CityLife model is to show how complex patterns of land use will evolve from
simple behavioural rules for the strategically interdependent actors in combination with …

This publication contains the following contributions: transportation planning in a social
context (nijkamp, p and reichman, s); human interaction and spatial mobility: retrospect and …