Robert J Stimson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 366940 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert J Stimson |
| NOMBRES | Robert J |
| APELLIDO | Stimson |
| FIRMA | STIMSON R J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 173 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Neighborhood Variation of Sustainable Urban Morphological Characteristics
Compact cities and their urban forms have implications on sustainable city development because of high density urban settlement, increased accessibility, and a balanced land use mix. This paper uses quantitative means of understanding urban morphological characteristics with reference to the differing qualities of the urban form (i.e., street patterns, building volumes, land uses and greenery). The results, based on 89 neighborhood communities of…
Personal and Neighbourhood Indicators of Quality of Urban Life
The influence of weather on local geographical patterns of bus usage
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Spatially Integrated Social Science
Survey research methods
The chapters in this book provide coverage of the theoretical underpinnings and methodologies that typify research using a Spatially Integrated Social Science (SISS) approach. This insightful Handbook is intended chiefly as a primer for students and budding researchers who wish to investigate social, economic and behavioural phenomena by giving explicit consideration to the roles of space and place. The majority of chapters provide an emphasis on…
Satisfied Residents in Different Types of Local Areas
You Don't Need Sight to Have Vision
Investigating Quality of Urban Life
Human Capital as Knowledge Resource for Regional Development
Modelling Potential Socio-economic Determinants of Building Fires in South East Queensland
This paper investigates the relationships between areas of building fire incidence, levels of socio-economic disadvantage and the underlying socio-economic characteristics in the South East Queensland (SEQ) region, Australia. Disaggregated fire incident data was acquired from the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS) and then aggregated to the Statistical Local Area (SLA) level. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defined index of socio…
Guest Editorial
Why bother to ‘downshift’? The characteristics and satisfaction of downshifters in the Brisbane-South East Queensland region, Australia
Utilización de estadísticos circulares para explorar la geografía del desplazamiento hasta el trabajo
Understanding the Downshifting Phenomenon
A quality of life survey of a sample of households across the Brisbane‐South East Queensland region has identified about 28 percent of people as ‘downshifters.‘ They are defined as people who voluntarily make a long‐term change in their lifestyle – other than planned retirement – which reduces income and adjusts their lifestyle conditions. A typology of downshifters is developed on the basis of their motives for downshifting and their socio‐econo…
Reginald George Golledge (6 December 1937-29 May 2009)
Using circular statistics to explore the geography of the journey to work
Quality of Life and Social Inclusion
The concepts of quality of life, anomie or marginalisation and social capital are introduced in the context of the impact of the post-modernising forces of globalisation, urbanisation, and mass migration on societal structures. Empirical relationships between the three concepts were explored using data derived from a study undertaken in south east Queensland, Australia in 2003. On the basis of descriptive statistics and a path analysis using LISR…
What is the Strength of the Link Between Objective and Subjective Indicators of Urban Quality of Life?
Spatially Disaggregated Modelling of Voting Outcomes and Socio-Economic Characteristics at the 2001 Australian Federal Election
This study uses GIS and spatial modelling to relate voting outcomes at the 2001 federal election for polling booths across Australia with the socio-economic characteristics of polling booth catchment areas. The data and analysis used are more detailed and comprehensive than previous studies. It is conducted at a fine level of spatial disaggregation across the whole nation to examine voting outcomes for both major and minor political parties. Beca…
Measuring community strength and social capital
Western J., StimsonR., Baum S. and Van Gellecum Y. (2005) Measuring community strength and social capital, Regional Studies 39 , 1095–1109. Five case study communities in both metropolitan and regional urban locations in Australia are used as test sites to develop measures of ‘community strength’ on four domains: Natural Capital; Produced Economic Capital; Human Capital; and Social and Institutional Capital. The paper focuses on the fourth domain…
Fear of crime in Brisbane
Numerous theories apply to fear of crime and each are associated with different kinds of variables. Most studies use only one theory, though this study examines the relative importance of different kinds of variables across a number of theories. The study uses data from a survey of residents in Brisbane, Australia to examine the relative importance of individual attributes, neighbourhood disorder, social processes and neighbourhood structure in p…
Testing a Moderated Model of Satisfaction with Urban Living using Data for Brisbane-South East Queensland, Australia
A Push - Pull Framework for Modelling the Relocation of Retirees to a Retirement Village
Although most older people prefer to age in place, nonetheless many do relocate, with a small proportion moving to retirement villages, which provide a purpose designed and built residential and lifestyle environment. Using factor analyses, path analyses, and a push - pull framework, the authors model the decision process of retirees in Australia in order to identify relationships between push - pull factors and predictor variables, using data fr…
The Social and Economic Performance of Australia's Large Regional Cities and Towns
Australia's large regional cities and towns display wide variation in how they are adjusting to the socio‐economic transitions occurring in Australia. That variation is exposed using a multi‐variate model analysing performance on a range of socio‐economic variables over the decade 1986 to 1996 for 122 cities and towns with populations of 10 000 and above at the 1996 census. Those places are classified into seven clusters of community performance …
International Urban Planning Settings
International Urban Settings: Innovations in Planning Approaches (J.F. Williams, R.J. Stimson). Part I: City and Regional Planning Strategies. Planning for a vibrant central city: the case of Nayoya, Japan (A.J. Jacobs). An economic development strategy for Cairns (B. Roberts, J. Dean). 'Model Singapore': crossing urban boundaries (V. Savage, C.P. Pow). The Long Beach story: a California city, repositions itself (R.A. Watson, M. Perez). Shenzben:…
Testing a Moderated Model of Satisfaction with Urban Living using Data for Brisbane-South East Queensland, Australia
Measuring community strength and social capital
Western J., StimsonR., Baum S. and Van Gellecum Y. (2005) Measuring community strength and social capital, Regional Studies 39 , 1095–1109. Five case study communities in both metropolitan and regional urban locations in Australia are used as test sites to develop measures of ‘community strength’ on four domains: Natural Capital; Produced Economic Capital; Human Capital; and Social and Institutional Capital. The paper focuses on the fourth domain…
Why People Move to the 'Sun-belt
This paper reports a study investigating long-distance migration to the Gold Coast in Australia's 'sun-belt'. A survey of in-migrant households, derived through a random digit dialling sample and telephone interviewing, collected data on aspects of the migration decision process. The data show non-economic, mainly lifestyle factors to be predominant in migration decisions. The relationships amongst employment status, housing tenure and household/…
Satisfied Residents in Different Types of Local Areas
Fear of crime in Brisbane
Numerous theories apply to fear of crime and each are associated with different kinds of variables. Most studies use only one theory, though this study examines the relative importance of different kinds of variables across a number of theories. The study uses data from a survey of residents in Brisbane, Australia to examine the relative importance of individual attributes, neighbourhood disorder, social processes and neighbourhood structure in p…
Dividing Societies
This paper reviews trends over the last two to three decades in the socio‐economic divisions in Australia, focusing on their spatial dimensions. It provides empirical evidence that our society is dividing on multiple dimensions – including shifts in industry and occupational structure, income distribution, the incidence of poverty. And it demonstrates that the differentiations across space in socio‐economic phenomena also have complex multiple di…
The Social and Economic Performance of Australia's Large Regional Cities and Towns
Australia's large regional cities and towns display wide variation in how they are adjusting to the socio‐economic transitions occurring in Australia. That variation is exposed using a multi‐variate model analysing performance on a range of socio‐economic variables over the decade 1986 to 1996 for 122 cities and towns with populations of 10 000 and above at the 1996 census. Those places are classified into seven clusters of community performance …
Why bother to ‘downshift’? The characteristics and satisfaction of downshifters in the Brisbane-South East Queensland region, Australia
A Push - Pull Framework for Modelling the Relocation of Retirees to a Retirement Village
Although most older people prefer to age in place, nonetheless many do relocate, with a small proportion moving to retirement villages, which provide a purpose designed and built residential and lifestyle environment. Using factor analyses, path analyses, and a push - pull framework, the authors model the decision process of retirees in Australia in order to identify relationships between push - pull factors and predictor variables, using data fr…
Communities of the Postindustrial City
The authors discern the community structure of the postindustrial city, with reference to Australia. They focus empirically on three major types of Australian urban center: urban regions, metropolitan areas that are not part of urban regions, and other major cities. These three account for almost three-quarters of the Australian population. The authors draw on a conceptualization formulated by Marcuse and van Kempen to guide the analysis, with a …
Understanding the Downshifting Phenomenon
A quality of life survey of a sample of households across the Brisbane‐South East Queensland region has identified about 28 percent of people as ‘downshifters.‘ They are defined as people who voluntarily make a long‐term change in their lifestyle – other than planned retirement – which reduces income and adjusts their lifestyle conditions. A typology of downshifters is developed on the basis of their motives for downshifting and their socio‐econo…
A typology of community opportunity and vulnerability in metropolitan Australia
Tourism and Foreign Investment in Australia
Processes of internationalisation and structural economic change have had profound impacts on the pattern of regional economic activity in Australia. The 1980s was a decade of rapid growth in foreign investment, reoriented to the property and services sector, including tourism. It was also a boom time for international tourism, which emerged as the nation's leading export industry. In addition to the national gateway city of Sydney, the rapidly g…
Asian Investment in Australian Capital City Property Markets
In the mid-1970s Asian investment in Australia accounted for less than 15% of the total foreign investment inflow. By 1984 the inflow from Asia had increased dramatically to 40% or $A4155 million per annum. Over the past ten years an increasing proportion of the Asian investment inflow has been directed to the capital city property markets-particularly Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast. In this paper the reasons for these cha…
Personal and Neighbourhood Indicators of Quality of Urban Life
Using circular statistics to explore the geography of the journey to work
Australian Capital City Property Development, Foreign Investment and Investor Attitudes
Recently there has been a substantial change in the role of foreign investment in urban property development in Australia. Now, about 50% of foreign investment each year is directed to urban property sectors, with Asian investors accounting for approaching 50% of this investment. This trend has coincided with the re‐emergence of the property development sector from the trough of a recession in the early 1970s to something approaching a boom in th…
Convergence and Divergence in the Australian Space Economy
Australia's space economy has changed rapidly since the 1970s through processes of globalisation, economic restructuring and demographic change. Trends in population distribution and patterns of employment and investment in economic activity highlight both spatial diffusion and concentration. Migration to ‘sun belt’ regions and suburban growth in the mega metro regions is creating population‐led demand for production and services, thus creating i…
Dependency in the Modern Global Economy
Theories which attempt to explain the structural features of spatial and temporal changes in the global system have generally underestimated the recent impacts of the international financial system. Japan and Australia are investigated because they illustrate opposite ends of the spectrum of experiences of these impacts. Beyond 1985 Japan became the world's major creditor nation, but in 1992 was facing a severe crisis in its domestic capital mark…
The influence of weather on local geographical patterns of bus usage
Modelling Potential Socio-economic Determinants of Building Fires in South East Queensland
This paper investigates the relationships between areas of building fire incidence, levels of socio-economic disadvantage and the underlying socio-economic characteristics in the South East Queensland (SEQ) region, Australia. Disaggregated fire incident data was acquired from the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS) and then aggregated to the Statistical Local Area (SLA) level. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defined index of socio…
Quality of Life and Social Inclusion
The concepts of quality of life, anomie or marginalisation and social capital are introduced in the context of the impact of the post-modernising forces of globalisation, urbanisation, and mass migration on societal structures. Empirical relationships between the three concepts were explored using data derived from a study undertaken in south east Queensland, Australia in 2003. On the basis of descriptive statistics and a path analysis using LISR…
City profile
The Impact of Daikyo as a Foreign Investor on the Cairns - Far North Queensland Regional Economy
Foreign investment has played a major role in the development of tourism in the Cairns-Far North Queensland region of Australia, one of the nation's most internationalised regional economies. As the owner of a significant number of hotels and tourism operations, the Daikyo Corporation from Japan is the major foreign player, contributing substantially to employment and regional production. In this paper we use input-output analysis to estimate the…
The provision and use of general practitioner services in Adelaide, Australia
Hierarchical Classificatory Methods
Spatial Aspects of Epidemiological Phenomena and of the Provision and Utilization of Health Care Services in Australia
This paper reviews data source problems faced by researchers in Australia in investigating a variety of aspects of medical geography. It describes the nature of health care services organization in Australia, and reports on the recent contributions geographers have made to investigating the spatial characteristics of epidemiological phenomena, questions of equity in the provision of and access to health care services, and behavioural analyses of …
The provision and use of general practitioner services in Adelaide, Australia
Asian Investment in Australian Capital City Property Markets
In the mid-1970s Asian investment in Australia accounted for less than 15% of the total foreign investment inflow. By 1984 the inflow from Asia had increased dramatically to 40% or $A4155 million per annum. Over the past ten years an increasing proportion of the Asian investment inflow has been directed to the capital city property markets-particularly Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast. In this paper the reasons for these cha…
Australian Capital City Property Development, Foreign Investment and Investor Attitudes
Recently there has been a substantial change in the role of foreign investment in urban property development in Australia. Now, about 50% of foreign investment each year is directed to urban property sectors, with Asian investors accounting for approaching 50% of this investment. This trend has coincided with the re‐emergence of the property development sector from the trough of a recession in the early 1970s to something approaching a boom in th…
Regional Structural Change
Dependency in the Modern Global Economy
Theories which attempt to explain the structural features of spatial and temporal changes in the global system have generally underestimated the recent impacts of the international financial system. Japan and Australia are investigated because they illustrate opposite ends of the spectrum of experiences of these impacts. Beyond 1985 Japan became the world's major creditor nation, but in 1992 was facing a severe crisis in its domestic capital mark…
Tourism and Foreign Investment in Australia
Processes of internationalisation and structural economic change have had profound impacts on the pattern of regional economic activity in Australia. The 1980s was a decade of rapid growth in foreign investment, reoriented to the property and services sector, including tourism. It was also a boom time for international tourism, which emerged as the nation's leading export industry. In addition to the national gateway city of Sydney, the rapidly g…
Public Transportation Access
Why People Move to the 'Sun-belt
This paper reports a study investigating long-distance migration to the Gold Coast in Australia's 'sun-belt'. A survey of in-migrant households, derived through a random digit dialling sample and telephone interviewing, collected data on aspects of the migration decision process. The data show non-economic, mainly lifestyle factors to be predominant in migration decisions. The relationships amongst employment status, housing tenure and household/…
Convergence and Divergence in the Australian Space Economy
Australia's space economy has changed rapidly since the 1970s through processes of globalisation, economic restructuring and demographic change. Trends in population distribution and patterns of employment and investment in economic activity highlight both spatial diffusion and concentration. Migration to ‘sun belt’ regions and suburban growth in the mega metro regions is creating population‐led demand for production and services, thus creating i…
The Impact of Daikyo as a Foreign Investor on the Cairns - Far North Queensland Regional Economy
Foreign investment has played a major role in the development of tourism in the Cairns-Far North Queensland region of Australia, one of the nation's most internationalised regional economies. As the owner of a significant number of hotels and tourism operations, the Daikyo Corporation from Japan is the major foreign player, contributing substantially to employment and regional production. In this paper we use input-output analysis to estimate the…
Spatial Behavior
Keywords: spatial problems ; decision making ; social aspects ; cognitive theory Reference Record created on 2005-06-20, modified on 2016-08-08
City profile
A typology of community opportunity and vulnerability in metropolitan Australia
A typology of community opportunity and vulnerability in metropolitan Australia
Dividing Societies
This paper reviews trends over the last two to three decades in the socio‐economic divisions in Australia, focusing on their spatial dimensions. It provides empirical evidence that our society is dividing on multiple dimensions – including shifts in industry and occupational structure, income distribution, the incidence of poverty. And it demonstrates that the differentiations across space in socio‐economic phenomena also have complex multiple di…
Communities of the Postindustrial City
The authors discern the community structure of the postindustrial city, with reference to Australia. They focus empirically on three major types of Australian urban center: urban regions, metropolitan areas that are not part of urban regions, and other major cities. These three account for almost three-quarters of the Australian population. The authors draw on a conceptualization formulated by Marcuse and van Kempen to guide the analysis, with a …
The Social and Economic Performance of Australia's Large Regional Cities and Towns
Australia's large regional cities and towns display wide variation in how they are adjusting to the socio‐economic transitions occurring in Australia. That variation is exposed using a multi‐variate model analysing performance on a range of socio‐economic variables over the decade 1986 to 1996 for 122 cities and towns with populations of 10 000 and above at the 1996 census. Those places are classified into seven clusters of community performance …
A Push - Pull Framework for Modelling the Relocation of Retirees to a Retirement Village
Although most older people prefer to age in place, nonetheless many do relocate, with a small proportion moving to retirement villages, which provide a purpose designed and built residential and lifestyle environment. Using factor analyses, path analyses, and a push - pull framework, the authors model the decision process of retirees in Australia in order to identify relationships between push - pull factors and predictor variables, using data fr…
Measuring community strength and social capital
Western J., StimsonR., Baum S. and Van Gellecum Y. (2005) Measuring community strength and social capital, Regional Studies 39 , 1095–1109. Five case study communities in both metropolitan and regional urban locations in Australia are used as test sites to develop measures of ‘community strength’ on four domains: Natural Capital; Produced Economic Capital; Human Capital; and Social and Institutional Capital. The paper focuses on the fourth domain…
Fear of crime in Brisbane
Numerous theories apply to fear of crime and each are associated with different kinds of variables. Most studies use only one theory, though this study examines the relative importance of different kinds of variables across a number of theories. The study uses data from a survey of residents in Brisbane, Australia to examine the relative importance of individual attributes, neighbourhood disorder, social processes and neighbourhood structure in p…
Testing a Moderated Model of Satisfaction with Urban Living using Data for Brisbane-South East Queensland, Australia
What is the Strength of the Link Between Objective and Subjective Indicators of Urban Quality of Life?
Spatially Disaggregated Modelling of Voting Outcomes and Socio-Economic Characteristics at the 2001 Australian Federal Election
This study uses GIS and spatial modelling to relate voting outcomes at the 2001 federal election for polling booths across Australia with the socio-economic characteristics of polling booth catchment areas. The data and analysis used are more detailed and comprehensive than previous studies. It is conducted at a fine level of spatial disaggregation across the whole nation to examine voting outcomes for both major and minor political parties. Beca…
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