Geospatial Analysis to Support Urban Planning in Beijing [electronic resource] / by Ying Long, Zhenjiang Shen.

Prologue: Geospatial analysis and application: A comprehensive view of planning support issues in the Beijing metropolitan area -- Urban form: Human behaviour contained in geo-features: Micro-data synthesis to determine household attributes, the population location, and human mobility in Beijing -- Exploring virtual human activities in Beijing using micro-blog data: A preliminary exploration using big data -- Commuting behaviour in Beijing using bus smart card data -- Identifying the impact of the socioeconomic attributes of urban space on human mobility: Evidence from the analysis of TAZ and individual scales in Beijing -- Planning actions to control development activities: A preliminary study in planning management using an agent-based approach in Beijing -- Development activities and the transitional economy of China from 1950-2012 using a polygon-based approach -- Urban form: Spatial patterns for land use and transportation: Exploring urban spatial patterns of transportation and land use in Beijing using the land use and transportation integrated model -- The transition of traffic flow in the urban space during the urban expansion process in Beijing between 2005 and 2010 -- The land use pattern of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei using a constrained cellular automata model -- Global sensitivity analysis of the effect of land use policy on urban growth patterns using constrained CA models and the GLUE approach -- A new approach to land use patterns: A fine-scale, polygon-based database for urban spatial development models of Beijing -- Parcel direction: A new indicator for spatiotemporally measuring land use patterns and understanding urban form -- Epilogue: A planning support toolkit for Beijing, including theories, software and models.