Spatial science – Looking outward

Spatial Analysis through the Looking Glass

One of the delightful attractions that mathematics and geography have in common is that they offer fresh views of the world. Both fields of inquiry are circumspect almost by definition, and as soon as one looks around without prejudice, one discovers alternatives to one’s provincial world view. In mathematics, formalism and generalization are the seemingly sterile keys that open the gates to fe...

LOOKING OUTWARD OR TURNING INWARD? Motivations for Development Decisions in California Central Cities and Suburbs

The author probes for differences among central cities, suburbs, and rural communities in the perceived importance of various motivations for development decisions, drawing on a mail survey of city managers/administrators in California. Central-city respondents are more inclined to “look outward” in making land-use decisions, attributing greater importance to certain regional economic and devel...

Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance, Novelty, and Resource Allocation in Science

Selecting among alternative projects is a core management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge embodied in research proposals and an evaluator's own expertise systematically relates to the evaluations given. To estimate relationships, we designed a...

Outside Looking In: Understanding the Role of Science in Regulation

Looking for Science in the Art of Network Measurement

Network measurements are crucial both to drive research and in network operations. We introduce a taxonomy and survey the state of the art of network measurement. We compare measurements available at the network layer with those available at higher layers, speciically the DNS and the Web. Both the DNS and the Web can be viewed as logical networks; this allows the direct comparison of measuremen...