Helen Couclelis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Couclelis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Couclelis |
| SIGNATURE | COUCLELIS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
There will be no Post-Covid city
Ontology: Theoretical Perspectives
Two very different meanings of “ontology” are represented in contemporary geography. Humanistic and critical geographers understand ontology in the traditional philosophical sense of “what exists in the world,” while geographic information science has adopted the recent computational usage of “a [formal] specification of a conceptualization.” The former meaning motivates theoretical analyses and discourses inspired by the work of major philosophe…
Extracting urban functional regions from points of interest and human activities on location‐based social networks
Data about points of interest (POI) have been widely used in studying urban land use types and for sensing human behavior. However, it is difficult to quantify the correct mix or the spatial relations among different POI types indicative of specific urban functions. In this research, we develop a statistical framework to help discover semantically meaningful topics and functional regions based on the co‐occurrence patterns of POI types. The frame…
The Sage Handbook of GIS and Society
This title emphasizes the theoretical, methodological and substantive diversity within GIS and society research
Throwing space back in: A tale of Indian fishermen, ICT and travel behavior
Obituary-Reg Golledge 1937-2009
Rethinking Time Geography in the Information Age
As everyday activities are increasingly carried out at least in part through digitally mediated remote interaction, researchers interested in the complex relationships between urban activities, spaces, and travel are running up against the limits of familiar forms of time geography. This paper argues that because information and communication technologies (ICTs) are loosening the traditionally close links between activity, place, and time, physic…
Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent‐Based Models, and Fractals – Michael Batty
The role of spatial metrics in the analysis and modeling of urban land use change
"Where has the Future Gone?" Rethinking the Role of Integrated Land-Use Models in Spatial Planning
Despite more than four decades of efforts to integrate the two fields, the place of land-use models in planning remains problematic. The expanding possibilities afforded by today's planning support systems (PSS) invite a rethinking of the relationship between land-use models and planning in the context of new approaches, tools, and techniques that can amplify the positive synergies between the two domains and enhance the ability of spatial planni…
Pizza over the Internet: E-commerce, the fragmentation of activity and the tyranny of the region
The question this paper explores is the extent to which e-commerce may be liberating consumers and merchants from the constraints of space (and time) that have traditionally led to predictable regional patterns of retail location. Is distance dead, have the laws of regional organization dissolved away in the age of Internet shopping? Following a discussion of some figures, trends and definitions relating to e-commerce, the paper develops a tentat…
The Third Domain: The Spread and Use of gis within Social Science
Discussions of geographic information systems (gis) and society have usually revolved around the uses and effects of gis in the real world, in contradistinction to its uses in the ivory towers of academia by geographers and other spatially aware researchers
Requirements for Planning‐relevant Gis: A Spatial Perspective
Requirements for planning-relevant GIS: A spatial perspective
Urban Liveability: A Commentary
A Ground for Common Search
Of Mice and Men: What Rodent Populations Can Teach Us about Complex Spatial Dynamics
Models of complex systems need not be themselves complex, let alone complicated. To illustrate this important point, a very simple cellular automaton model of rodent population dynamics is used to generate a wide variety of different spatiotemporal structures corresponding to different forms of equilibrium, cyclical, quasi-cyclical, and chaotic system behavior. The issue of complexity as it pertains to a number of different contemporary scientifi…
Exploring the anchor-point hypothesis of spatial cognition
The Future of Geography
Part 1: The Content of Geography Introduction: Exploring The Future of Geography R. J. Johnston 1. Physical Geography and the Natural Environmental Sciences Peter Worsley 2. Holistic and Reductionist Aproaches to Geography I. G. Simmons and N. J. Cox 3. Geography Has Neither Existence Nor future Michael E. Eliot Hurst 4. The Value of A Geographical Perspective Peter J. Taylor Part 2: Philosophy and Methodology 5. Geography as a Scientific Enterpr…
Space and Spaces
Alternative conceptions of space abound in geography, and drawing a line between them is not always easy. A distinction that seems particularly difficult to make is the one between perceptual and cognitive space. Although it is usually recognized that these are different concepts, the lack of any hard distinctions between them continues to be the cause of some confusion in behavioral studies. In this paper we show that a formal distinction betwee…
A Theoretical Framework for Alternative Models of Spatial Decision and Behavior
As research into human spatial behavior diversifies and progresses, the accumulation of empirical findings seems to outpace the opportunities for conceptual organization in the field. This state of affairs is common in some newer areas of science where classical patterns of explanation are no longer found to be achievable or even relevant. In the quest for conceptual frameworks that would help make sense of research developments defying familiar …
Cellular Worlds: A Framework for Modeling Micro-Macro Dynamics
Cellular spaces have recently received a lot of attention in computer science and elsewhere as models capable of bridging the gap between disaggregate and aggregate description. Despite their obvious spatial interpretation, standard cell-space models are too constrained by their background conventions to be useful in realistic geographic applications. In this paper, a generalization of the cell-space principle is presented, based on discrete mode…
The Notion of Prior Structure in Urban Modelling
Most work in urban modelling to date has proceeded under the tacit assumption that there are mechanisms of urban process, either deterministic or nondeterministic, which can be approximately described in models. An alternative hypothesis is suggested proposing that urban process as such cannot be objectively specified, although urban system behaviour may appear deterministic or nondeterministic according to the frame of representation chosen by t…
Analytic Research, Positivism, and Behavioral Geography
Although we acknowledge the debt that mainstream behavioral geography owes to positivism, our central argument here is that much of that research tradition has now transcended its positivist roots and that we should preserve only those virtues of analytic discourse that appear to be of enduring value. In this paper we examine the strengths and weaknesses of analytic behavioral research and compare the perspective of this research with the viewpoi…
Rethinking Time Geography in the Information Age
As everyday activities are increasingly carried out at least in part through digitally mediated remote interaction, researchers interested in the complex relationships between urban activities, spaces, and travel are running up against the limits of familiar forms of time geography. This paper argues that because information and communication technologies (ICTs) are loosening the traditionally close links between activity, place, and time, physic…
Cellular Worlds: A Framework for Modeling Micro-Macro Dynamics
Cellular spaces have recently received a lot of attention in computer science and elsewhere as models capable of bridging the gap between disaggregate and aggregate description. Despite their obvious spatial interpretation, standard cell-space models are too constrained by their background conventions to be useful in realistic geographic applications. In this paper, a generalization of the cell-space principle is presented, based on discrete mode…
"Where has the Future Gone?" Rethinking the Role of Integrated Land-Use Models in Spatial Planning
Despite more than four decades of efforts to integrate the two fields, the place of land-use models in planning remains problematic. The expanding possibilities afforded by today's planning support systems (PSS) invite a rethinking of the relationship between land-use models and planning in the context of new approaches, tools, and techniques that can amplify the positive synergies between the two domains and enhance the ability of spatial planni…
Of Mice and Men: What Rodent Populations Can Teach Us about Complex Spatial Dynamics
Models of complex systems need not be themselves complex, let alone complicated. To illustrate this important point, a very simple cellular automaton model of rodent population dynamics is used to generate a wide variety of different spatiotemporal structures corresponding to different forms of equilibrium, cyclical, quasi-cyclical, and chaotic system behavior. The issue of complexity as it pertains to a number of different contemporary scientifi…
Analytic Research, Positivism, and Behavioral Geography
Although we acknowledge the debt that mainstream behavioral geography owes to positivism, our central argument here is that much of that research tradition has now transcended its positivist roots and that we should preserve only those virtues of analytic discourse that appear to be of enduring value. In this paper we examine the strengths and weaknesses of analytic behavioral research and compare the perspective of this research with the viewpoi…
A Theoretical Framework for Alternative Models of Spatial Decision and Behavior
As research into human spatial behavior diversifies and progresses, the accumulation of empirical findings seems to outpace the opportunities for conceptual organization in the field. This state of affairs is common in some newer areas of science where classical patterns of explanation are no longer found to be achievable or even relevant. In the quest for conceptual frameworks that would help make sense of research developments defying familiar …
Requirements for planning-relevant GIS: A spatial perspective
Throwing space back in: A tale of Indian fishermen, ICT and travel behavior
Space and Spaces
Alternative conceptions of space abound in geography, and drawing a line between them is not always easy. A distinction that seems particularly difficult to make is the one between perceptual and cognitive space. Although it is usually recognized that these are different concepts, the lack of any hard distinctions between them continues to be the cause of some confusion in behavioral studies. In this paper we show that a formal distinction betwee…
The Notion of Prior Structure in Urban Modelling
Most work in urban modelling to date has proceeded under the tacit assumption that there are mechanisms of urban process, either deterministic or nondeterministic, which can be approximately described in models. An alternative hypothesis is suggested proposing that urban process as such cannot be objectively specified, although urban system behaviour may appear deterministic or nondeterministic according to the frame of representation chosen by t…
Analytic Research, Positivism, and Behavioral Geography
Although we acknowledge the debt that mainstream behavioral geography owes to positivism, our central argument here is that much of that research tradition has now transcended its positivist roots and that we should preserve only those virtues of analytic discourse that appear to be of enduring value. In this paper we examine the strengths and weaknesses of analytic behavioral research and compare the perspective of this research with the viewpoi…
The Notion of Prior Structure in Urban Modelling
Most work in urban modelling to date has proceeded under the tacit assumption that there are mechanisms of urban process, either deterministic or nondeterministic, which can be approximately described in models. An alternative hypothesis is suggested proposing that urban process as such cannot be objectively specified, although urban system behaviour may appear deterministic or nondeterministic according to the frame of representation chosen by t…
Cellular Worlds: A Framework for Modeling Micro-Macro Dynamics
Cellular spaces have recently received a lot of attention in computer science and elsewhere as models capable of bridging the gap between disaggregate and aggregate description. Despite their obvious spatial interpretation, standard cell-space models are too constrained by their background conventions to be useful in realistic geographic applications. In this paper, a generalization of the cell-space principle is presented, based on discrete mode…
Space and Spaces
Alternative conceptions of space abound in geography, and drawing a line between them is not always easy. A distinction that seems particularly difficult to make is the one between perceptual and cognitive space. Although it is usually recognized that these are different concepts, the lack of any hard distinctions between them continues to be the cause of some confusion in behavioral studies. In this paper we show that a formal distinction betwee…
A Theoretical Framework for Alternative Models of Spatial Decision and Behavior
As research into human spatial behavior diversifies and progresses, the accumulation of empirical findings seems to outpace the opportunities for conceptual organization in the field. This state of affairs is common in some newer areas of science where classical patterns of explanation are no longer found to be achievable or even relevant. In the quest for conceptual frameworks that would help make sense of research developments defying familiar …
Exploring the anchor-point hypothesis of spatial cognition
The Future of Geography
Part 1: The Content of Geography Introduction: Exploring The Future of Geography R. J. Johnston 1. Physical Geography and the Natural Environmental Sciences Peter Worsley 2. Holistic and Reductionist Aproaches to Geography I. G. Simmons and N. J. Cox 3. Geography Has Neither Existence Nor future Michael E. Eliot Hurst 4. The Value of A Geographical Perspective Peter J. Taylor Part 2: Philosophy and Methodology 5. Geography as a Scientific Enterpr…
Of Mice and Men: What Rodent Populations Can Teach Us about Complex Spatial Dynamics
Models of complex systems need not be themselves complex, let alone complicated. To illustrate this important point, a very simple cellular automaton model of rodent population dynamics is used to generate a wide variety of different spatiotemporal structures corresponding to different forms of equilibrium, cyclical, quasi-cyclical, and chaotic system behavior. The issue of complexity as it pertains to a number of different contemporary scientifi…
A Ground for Common Search
Urban Liveability: A Commentary
Requirements for Planning‐relevant Gis: A Spatial Perspective
Requirements for planning-relevant GIS: A spatial perspective
Pizza over the Internet: E-commerce, the fragmentation of activity and the tyranny of the region
The question this paper explores is the extent to which e-commerce may be liberating consumers and merchants from the constraints of space (and time) that have traditionally led to predictable regional patterns of retail location. Is distance dead, have the laws of regional organization dissolved away in the age of Internet shopping? Following a discussion of some figures, trends and definitions relating to e-commerce, the paper develops a tentat…
The Third Domain: The Spread and Use of gis within Social Science
Discussions of geographic information systems (gis) and society have usually revolved around the uses and effects of gis in the real world, in contradistinction to its uses in the ivory towers of academia by geographers and other spatially aware researchers
The role of spatial metrics in the analysis and modeling of urban land use change
"Where has the Future Gone?" Rethinking the Role of Integrated Land-Use Models in Spatial Planning
Despite more than four decades of efforts to integrate the two fields, the place of land-use models in planning remains problematic. The expanding possibilities afforded by today's planning support systems (PSS) invite a rethinking of the relationship between land-use models and planning in the context of new approaches, tools, and techniques that can amplify the positive synergies between the two domains and enhance the ability of spatial planni…
Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent‐Based Models, and Fractals – Michael Batty
Throwing space back in: A tale of Indian fishermen, ICT and travel behavior
Obituary-Reg Golledge 1937-2009
Rethinking Time Geography in the Information Age
As everyday activities are increasingly carried out at least in part through digitally mediated remote interaction, researchers interested in the complex relationships between urban activities, spaces, and travel are running up against the limits of familiar forms of time geography. This paper argues that because information and communication technologies (ICTs) are loosening the traditionally close links between activity, place, and time, physic…
The Sage Handbook of GIS and Society
This title emphasizes the theoretical, methodological and substantive diversity within GIS and society research
Ontology: Theoretical Perspectives
Two very different meanings of “ontology” are represented in contemporary geography. Humanistic and critical geographers understand ontology in the traditional philosophical sense of “what exists in the world,” while geographic information science has adopted the recent computational usage of “a [formal] specification of a conceptualization.” The former meaning motivates theoretical analyses and discourses inspired by the work of major philosophe…
Extracting urban functional regions from points of interest and human activities on location‐based social networks
Data about points of interest (POI) have been widely used in studying urban land use types and for sensing human behavior. However, it is difficult to quantify the correct mix or the spatial relations among different POI types indicative of specific urban functions. In this research, we develop a statistical framework to help discover semantically meaningful topics and functional regions based on the co‐occurrence patterns of POI types. The frame…
There will be no Post-Covid city
Computer Science (18 works) · Geography (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Mathematics (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (7 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 works) · Data science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 works)