Context and Uncertainty in Geography and GIScience: Advances in Theory, Method, and Practice
Mei Po Kwan,Tim Schwanen +1 more
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In this paper, the authors introduce the background and contents of this forum, which includes six articles based on presentations in the opening and closing plenary sessions of the featured theme on Context a...Abstract:
This article introduces the background and contents of this forum, which includes six articles based on presentations in the opening and closing plenary sessions of the featured theme on “Context a...read more
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Being surprised and surprising ourselves: A geography of personal and social change.
TL;DR: This paper argues that the timing is just right for a spatial account of surprise, or rather, for a geography of personal and social change that deploys the trope of surprise to help explain how and why change happens.
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Data-driven approach to characterize urban vitality: how spatiotemporal context dynamically defines Seoul’s nighttime
TL;DR: This paper applies a functional principal component analysis (FPCA) on 24-hour-based dataset of pedestrian traffic in Seoul in order to make a data-driven extraction of principal components that characterize the city’s unique patterns of urban vitality.
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The spatial statistic trinity: A generic framework for spatial sampling and inference
TL;DR: It is shown that the population, sample, and inference constitute a so-called spatial statistic trinity (SST), providing a new framework for spatial statistics, including sampling and inference, greatly simplifies the choice of method in spatial sampling and inferences.
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Distributive Justice and Transportation Equity: Inequality in accessibility in Rio de Janeiro
TL;DR: In this paper, a justice framework is developed to assess the distributional effects of transport policies and evaluate how the planned transport legacy of those mega-events impacted accessibility to sports venues, healthcare facilities, public schools and job opportunities for different income groups.
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People and their walking environments: An exploratory study of meanings, place and times
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored how pedestrians in Shenzhen respond to the walking environment through their articulation of walking practices through analyzing life stories of twenty local residents, highlighting the significance of meanings attached to walking, engagements with timescapes and attachment to place, illustrating how these themes were entangled with walking experiences.
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The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of area-based attributes on individual behaviors or outcomes face another fundamental methodological problem besides the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), i.e., the problem of finding the optimal attribute for each individual.
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Invited Commentary: History of Place, Life Course, and Health Inequalities—Historical Geographic Information Systems and Epidemiologic Research
TL;DR: The results of the first national-level US study to examine the relationship between urban form and various area-level sociodemographic measures are described, which offer analytical opportunities for better understanding how place-based factors influence health and well-being over the life course.