Researching Urban Law

Understanding Urban Tourism: researching culture and experience

Although the formidable growth of urban tourism around the world is well documented, it is widely acknowledged (see Page, 1995; Ashworth, 1989) that research focusing on the culture and experience of urban tourism is rare. Indeed, there is a degree of consensus that quantitative visitor surveys tend to dominate urban tourism research. Whilst recent cultural research focusing on the embodiment a...

Scaling Law of Urban Ride Sharing

Sharing rides could drastically improve the efficiency of car and taxi transportation. Unleashing such potential, however, requires understanding how urban parameters affect the fraction of individual trips that can be shared, a quantity that we call shareability. Using data on millions of taxi trips in New York City, San Francisco, Singapore, and Vienna, we compute the shareability curves for ...

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Researching Statement

As a network researcher, my goal is to develop theoretical frameworks for the control and optimization of large-scale engineering networks and explore the practical implications of such fundamental understanding. Motivated by concrete real-life applications, I pursue the underlying theoretical findings that can contribute to the fundamentals of networks and shed light on other practical applica...

Researching Aboriginal health: experience from a study of urban young people's health and well-being.

European colonisation had a devastating effect on the health and well-being of indigenous people in Australia. The history of Aboriginal health research has reflected the history of colonisation; research has understandably been viewed with distrust. The need for accurate statistics and improved understanding of health problems is clear, but obtaining them is not easy. In this paper we describe...