Section I: Evolving Definitions—Changing Practices.- 1. Advances in Urban and Environmental Modeling: Surveying the Terrain and Demarcating Frontiers.- 2. New Developments in Urban Modeling: Simulation, Representation, and Visualization.- 3. Integrating Knowledge about Land Use and the Environment Through the Use of Multiple Models.- Section II: Ecologic Processes and Their Land Use Implications.- 4. How We Will Grow: Baseline Projections of California’s Urban Footprint Through the Year 2100.- 5. Linking Land-use Change with Ecosystem Processes: A Hierarchical Patch Dynamic Model.- 6. Adaptive Management of Complex Socio-environmental Systems in the Southwestern United States: Examples of Urbanizing Watersheds in Arizona and Texas.- 7. Dynamic Spatial Modeling of Urban Growth on the San Pedro Watershed.- Section III: Visualization, Representation, and Communication.- 8. Texture as a Property of Remote-sensed Images: Augmenting Standard Spectral Classification Techniques Identification of Built Patches on the Upper San Pedro Basin Landscape.- 9. Balancing Measurement Precision with Cognitive Efforts in Weighting Method Selection.- Section IV: Socioeconomic Implications of Transportation and Land Use.- 10. Modeling the Reciprocal Relationship between Metropolitan Roadway Expansion and Urban Land Development with Elementary Extensions to Environmental Consequences.- 11. Reexamining the Geography of the Urban Labor Market: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area.- 12. Modeling Opportunity: Employment Accessibility and the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Phoenix Neighborhoods.- 13. Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) Review of the Maricopa Region and the MAG Socioeconomic Projection Process.- Contributor Biographies.
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