Social media check-in data, one type of crowdsourcing open data about individual activity-
related choices, provides a new perspective to sense people's spatial and temporal …

Location factors are vital elements for describing housing price variation. However, limited
studies have explicitly illustrated the relationship between urban design and the …

This study aims to examine associations between urban form factors generally, and street
network configuration in particular, and walking for different purposes among children in …

Rapid urbanisation, characterised by population increase and spatial development, is
pushing the frontiers of major African cities from old urban cores outward into peri-urban …

House price forecasting is an important topic of real estate. The excessive increase of
housing price will affect not merely the quality of life, but also the business cycle dynamics …

Cities appear to display similar features and mechanisms across different geographies. This
phenomenon seems to hold despite planning intentionality. In questioning the nature of this …

This study aimed at examining the presence of spatial association in residential property
characteristics. It considered self-contained residential apartments around a public …

Housing affordability is one of the most urgent issues facing the world. It has been a key
political concern in the UK since the 1960s. The UK housing policy challenge is to reduce …

Peri-urban areas in Ghana are experiencing rapid spatial transformation. Contributing to
existing literature on African peri-urbanisation, this thesis examines the emerging spatial …

Abstract Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is a technique that extends the
traditional regression framework by allowing spatial parameters to be explicitly estimated …