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Spatial search : application to planning problems in the public sector /
This book offers a wide ranging review of the problems associated with the search for the best location for public facilities. Typical examples of public facilities include roads and railways, pipelines and transmission wires, airports, power stations, community clinics, universities and schools. In...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
1980.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Urban and regional planning series ;
v. 23. Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Spatial Search: Applications to Planning Problems in the Public Sector; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 1. Spatial Search and Planning; What Is Spatial Search?; Choice, Decision-making and Planning; Some Comments on Utilization and Choice; Spatial Search and Action Theory; Information and Public Opinion: Catastrophe Theory; Searching for a Target, a Site or a Route; Utopia and Human Organization; Operations Research and Management; Some Basic Questions; Summary of Following Chapters.
- Chapter 2. Distance-Minimizing ModelsIntroduction; Location-Allocation Models; Sensitivity Analysis; Probability Maps and Time Graphs; Chapter 3. The Search for the Most Preferred Alternative: A Synthesis; The Most Preferred Alternative-An Elusive Concept; Collective Decision-making; Spatial Policy-making; Some Comments on Impacts; Benefit-Cost Analysis and Beyond; Public Participation and Spatial Choice; A Method for Allocating Facilities to Sites Using Individual Preferences: A Case Study; Chapter 4. Goals, Objectives, Criteria-Measurement and Manipulation Problems; Introductory Remarks.
- Measurement, Numbers, and ScalesGuidelines for Measurement Problems; Air Pollution, Noise, Visual Insult; A Critique of Four Case Studies; Criteria Weighting Debate and Lexicographic Ordering; Chapter 5. Strategies for Solving Complex Location Problems; Interest Groups, Conflict and Choice; Environmental Impact Assessment; Matrix Methods for Summarizing Impacts; Leopold's Environmental Impact Assessment Matrix; Ross's Environmental Interaction Matrix; Cross Impact Analysis; Corridor Location Studies; Interactive Approaches to Plan Evaluation; Noxious Facilities, Nuisance and the Law.
- Chapter 6. A General Model for Comparing Alternate Plans Using Multiple CriteriaIntroduction; Theoretical Discussion of the Procedure; Derivation of an Index of Similarity (S); Scaling the Concordance Matrix; Interpreting a One-Dimension Map; Interpreting a Two-Dimension Map; Application of the Procedure; Epilogue; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX; OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES.