This paper discusses the methodology and processes required to implement a geo-business classification to aid spatial decision making in the context of foreign direct investment promotion for London. This research is both timely and relevant since there is need for better decision support tools that will improve sub-regional location decision making ensuring London’s diverse business neighbourhoods are presented effectively to potential investors.

Author: Dave Chapman
Author: Patrick Weber

Publication: Transactions in GIS, Volume 15, Issue 3, pages 309–328, July 2011, Wiley, London.

Year: 2011

“A city is a network of paths, which are topologically deformable”. The city is viewed as a system whose identity constantly emerges from the rearrangement of interrelations between its elements. Focusing on the urban neighbourhood as a set of building blocks, this view on urban identity is tested through the automated identification of the structure of relations between discrete blocks of labelled neighbourhoods.

Author: Anna Laskari
Author: Sean Hanna
Author: Christian Derix

Publication:Design Computing and Cognition '08: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition. (pp. pp. 615-634). Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, The Netherlands. | full text (PDF)

Year:2008