Sense of Place in Hamilton,Ontario: Empirical Results of a Neighborhood-Based Survey   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

《Urban geography》2013,34(7):905-931

Although the concept of sense of place has a long history in the social sciences, relatively few studies have attempted a quantitative analysis of sense of place at the neighborhood level. This study reports on the empirical findings of a sense of place survey developed and tested in two contrasting neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: Southwest Mountain, an upper-middle-class suburban neighborhood and Northeast Industrial, a lower-income, working-class neighborhood located in the heart of the city's industrial district. The principal objective is to assess the relationship between sense of place and the socio-demographic characteristics of residents living in neighborhoods of very different socioeconomic status. This study also introduces a method for calculating a neighborhood sense of place score derived from a fully tested, validated survey instrument. It was found that sense of place was strongest in Southwest Mountain, and among seniors, long-term residents, unmarried people, and immigrants. In addition, residents with a lower level of education and those in the unpaid labor force had a stronger sense of place.  相似文献   

Neighborhood size and spatial scale in raster-based slope calculations     

Jing Gao  James E. Burt  A-Xing Zhu 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(10):1959-1978

Raster-based slope estimation is routine in GIS. Like many other terrain attributes, the slope at a location is determined from elevations of surrounding cells. This spatial extent – ‘neighborhood size’ – is often treated as the ‘spatial scale’ of the calculation. In fact, neighborhood size and spatial scale are two connected yet different concepts, but few studies have investigated the relationship between them. The distinction is important because neighborhood size is under user control whereas spatial scale is merely implicit in the computational method. This article attempts to clarify and provide a more precise meaning of the two terms by considering slope operators from the standpoint of the frequency (or wavenumber) domain. This article derives analytical expressions for the amplitude response functions of four popular slope estimators. These are used to characterize the individual methods and also to show that the neighborhood size and spatial scale of a slope calculation are not numerically the same. In fact, because there is no single spatial scale that can be unambiguously associated with a given neighborhood size, neighborhood size cannot be an adequate indicator of spatial scale. Furthermore, this article shows that different indices of ‘scale’ yield different impressions about the action of a slope estimator and its response to changing neighborhood size. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the amplitude response function when investigating the spatial scale. The article also provides guidance for GIS practitioners when selecting a slope estimation method.  相似文献   

Regional divisions     

Robert Sinclair Secretary‐Treasurer  David Simonett Chairman  George M. Howe Secretary  Robert B. McNee Secretary 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(1):29-31

A geographic perspective is utilized to test the hypothesis that the legal labels homicide and assault represent essentially similar behaviors. The data base describes some 1200 homicide and 32 000 serious assault victimizations in Dallas, TX, for 1981–85. Detailed comparisons across urban neighborhoods (differentiated by socioeconomic status) examine the demographic, temporal, locational, and weapons characteristics of both types of serious violence. The analysis indicates strong congruence between the offenses with respect to most attributes, implying that violence data should be classified differently for behavioral analyses.  相似文献   

PATRIMONY OF THE SEA AND FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA     

《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):421-424

Data from transportation studies are used to examine changes in accessibility to employment opportunities in the Milwaukee urban area from 1927 to 1963. Low-status areas of the city tended to experience the greatest decreases in employment accessibility compared with other parts of the urban area. Furthermore, increasing levels of employment accessibility were associated with greater amounts of new housing, whereas decreases in housing vacancies and population occured in areas with declining accessibility to employment.  相似文献   

COMMENTS ON “SPATIAL VARIATION OF HILLSLOPE PROFILES IN THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU,KENTUCKY” BY EDMUND B. WOOOS     

《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):488-489

Book Reviewed in this article:

Main Street: Northeastern Oregon: The Founding and Development of Small Towns. Barbara Ruth Bailey.

Food Politics: The Regional Conflict. David N. Balaam and Michael J. Carey, eds.

The International Economy and Industrial Development: Trade and Investment in the Third World. R. Ballance, J. Ansari and H. Singer.

Neighborhoods in Urban America. Ronald H. Bayor, ed.

The English Heartland. By Robert Beckinsale and Monica Beckinsale.

Regional Dimensions of Industrial Policy. Michael E. Bell and Paul S. Lande, eds.

Tension Areas of the World. D. Gordon Bennett, ed.

Latin America: an Introductory Survey. B. W. Blouet and O. M. Blouet, eds.

Integration and Division: Geographical Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Problem. Frederick W. Boal and J. Neville H. Douglas, eds.

Energy and Land Use. Robert W. Burchell and David Listokin, eds.

Slopes and Weathering. Michael Clarke and John Small.

Alaska's Rural Development. Peter G. Cornwall and Gerald McBeath, eds.

The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America. Galen Cranz.

World Congress on Land Policy, 1980, Proceedings. Matthew Cullen and Sharon Woolery, eds.

Oregon Divided: A Regional Geography. Samuel N. Dicken and Emily F. Dicken.

Urban Food Marketing and Third World Rural Development. T. Scarlett Epstein.

South Africa: Spatial Frameworks for Development. T. J. D. Fair.

Institutions and Geographical Patterns. Robin Flowerdew, ed.

Industrialization of U.S. Agriculture, An Interpretive Atlas. Howard F. Gregor.

Planning Theory: Prospects for the 1980s. Patsy Healy, Glen McDougall and Michael J. Thomas, eds.

Neighborhood Mobilization: Redevelopment and Response. Jeffrey R. Henig.

The American Urban System: A Geographical Perspective. R. J. Johnston.

Climate, History and the Modern World. Hubert H. Lamb.

Climate and History: Studies in Past Climates and Their Impact on Man. T. M. L. Wigley, M. J. Ingram and G. Farmer.

China: Railways and Agricultural Development, 1875–1935. Ernest P. Liang.

A Desirable Energy Future—A National Perspective. Robert S. Livingston, T. D. Anderson, T. M. Besmann, M. Olszewski, A. M. Perry, and C. D. West.

Topothesia: Essays Presented to T. S. Ó Máille. B. S. Mac Aodha, ed.

Transportation for the Poor: Research in Rural Mobility. Hal S. Maggied.

Land Uses in American Cities. Harold M. Mayer and Charles R. Haves.

Industrial Organisation and Location. Philip McDermott and Michael Taylor.

Human Adaptability: an Introduction to Ecological Anthropology. Emilio F. Moran.

Regional Analysis and the New International Division of Labor. Frank Moulaert and Patricia W. Salinas, eds.

The Nuclear War Atlas. Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada:

Urbanization and Environmental Quality. Isao Orishimo.

The Garden of Eden: The Botanic Garden and the Re-Creation of Paradise. John Prest.

Earthfire, The Eruption of Mount St. Helens. Charles Rosenfeld and Robert Cooke.

Contest for the South China Sea. Marwyn S. Samuels.

The Future of the Wetlands: Assessing Visual-Cultural Values. Richard C. Smardon, ed.

Tucson: the Life and Times of An American City. C. L. Sonnichsen.

The Geography of Multinationals. Michael Taylor and Nigel Thrift, eds.

Impact of Marine Pollution on Society. Virginia Tippie and Dana Kester.

Reviving the Industrial City: the Politics of Urban Renewal in Lyon and Birmingham. Jerry A. Webman.

Andean Reflections: Letters from Carl O. Sauer While on a South American Trip under a Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, 1942. Robert C. West, ed.

Cartographic Drawing with Computers. P. Yoeli.  相似文献   

大城市低收入邻里社会贫困的测度差异与成因   总被引：5，自引：1，他引：4  

袁媛  李珊 《地理学报》2012,67(10):1353-1361

社会贫困是对居民的社会保障和福利的享有情况、社会参与和融合等生活状况的测度。利用中国3 大典型地域、6 个代表城市、3 类邻里的1809 份个体问卷调查数据, 本文选取13 个相关指标, 判定个体是否处于社会贫困状态, 利用回归模型探究其影响因素, 并分析社会贫困现象在不同邻里、不同城市集聚的分异特征。研究发现, 6 个城市间的社会贫困集聚程度顺序为东部、中部和西部;3 大类邻里中, 社会贫困在城中村表现最为明显, 内城居住区次之, 企业配套居住区最低。中国城市居民是否处于社会贫困状态是体制(户口类型) 和家庭(教育程度、年龄等) 因素共同作用的结果。代表体制因素的户口类型对3 类城市的社会贫困均起到影响, 东中部城市中家庭因素也有一定作用。体制因素对城中村的社会贫困起显著影响, 而家庭因素在内城居住区和企业配套居住区中作用更大。  相似文献   

非线性模型参数估计的大洪水解算方法     

王永弟  丁海勇 《地理空间信息》2012,10(6):142-144,1

直接搜索算法作为非线性模型参数估计的一种求解方法,具有无需求导,适用范围更广的优点,因而成为近年来的研究热点。将大洪水算法作为一种新的直接搜索算法引入到非线性模型的参数估计中,并以实例进行了计算分析,结果表明:大洪水算法是一种简单有效的非线性模型参数估计的直接搜索解算方法,不但在算法性能上表现优越,而且解的搜索不依赖于初值,能以较大概率收敛到全局最优解,是一种值得推广的直接搜索算法。  相似文献   

GIS面目标间拓扑关系的形式化模型   总被引：16，自引：4，他引：12  

邓敏  刘文宝  冯学智 《测绘学报》2005,34(1):85-90

拓扑关系的描述和区分是建立在空间目标相互作用过程中目标集及其分量集合拓扑特性变化基础之上的.建立了GIS中拓扑关系形式化描述和区分的一种广义模型,并与已有的形式化模型进行了比较分析,结果发现现有的形式化方法和模型是广义模型的一些特例.在此基础上,进一步提出了面目标间拓扑关系形式化描述的基本模型,并根据定义的拓扑距离和拓扑复杂性概念,建立了一个新的拓扑关系概念邻域图.  相似文献   

地理多要素Voronoi图相邻关系下的地图放大裁剪方法     

李佳  段平  梁明  吕海洋 《测绘通报》2017,(10):84-88

针对以欧氏距离作为放大因子对电子地图进行放大裁剪引起的信息失衡问题,提出了采用地理多要素Voronoi图相邻关系的地图放大裁剪方法,可有效避免以欧氏距离作为地图放大因子的地图信息失衡问题。将电子地图中的地理要素分为点、线、面,对于点要素,构建它的Voronoi图;对于非点要素,即线和面要素,构建它们的近似Voronoi图,当用户对电子地图中感兴趣地理要素目标放大时,只需要提取该目标的多要素Voronoi图相邻要素的近似Voronoi图,并计算它们的最小外包矩形,将最小外包矩形区域用于最终的地图放大裁剪区域,则可较好地顾及用户感兴趣地理要素目标周围的地理要素信息,可提高地图的易读性。采用本文方法对某区域电子地图进行了试验,结果表明,地理多要素Voronoi图相邻关系的地图放大裁剪方法能够较好地顾及目标周边地理要素信息,避免了以欧氏距离为放大因子的地图信息失衡。  相似文献   

无人机模糊图像自动检测方法     

魏铼  胡顺强  陈诚  胡卓玮  赵文吉 《地球信息科学学报》2017,19(7):962-971

图像模糊程度是图像评价的一个关键指标参数,它影响着图像的质量和信息。特别对于无人机拍摄的图像,如果利用模糊的图像参与计算,会造成很大的误差甚至出现颠覆性的结果。因此对于图像模糊的检测显得至关重要。传统的图像模糊检测方法大都基于人工检测、且有合格的参考图像参与评价过程,方法耗时、费力,无法用于大量无人机拍摄图像的分析。因此本文基于Sobel边缘检测原理,利用4个方向的Sobel算子,寻找图像中每个Sobel边缘点的模糊邻域,并构建模糊邻域宽度值的计算准则,由此来计算出整幅图像的平均模糊邻域宽度值,并将这个计算结果作为检测模糊的直接依据。同时考虑到无人机拍摄图像的特点,将其按照拍摄时间顺序排列,依次将相邻图像互为参考,通过对比互为参考图像的模糊邻域宽度值的变化情况,将宽度值突变的图像确定为模糊图像。据此对无人机拍摄的所有图像进行模糊检测。最终通过7组2322张 图像进行自动检测发现151张图像模糊,通过人工检测发现158张图像模糊,平均检测率95.57%。该检测方法具有较强的 适用性。  相似文献