introduction the Manchester-nashua metropolitan area has undergone a complex set of population shifts amid growing diversity. This brief documents those changes with recent data. For this research, we divide the Manchester-nashua metropolitan area into three parts: • the city of Manchester, with a population of 108,900 in 2007 • the city of nashua, with a population of 86,800 in 2007 • the bala...

Suburban sprawl is one of the most avidly followed urban issues in the United States today. However, despite the level of attention that is afforded sprawl, their remains relatively little understanding of its determinants and its constitution. Previous attempts to measure sprawl have focused largely on costing out its impacts rather than quantifying its characteristics. Also, the characterizat...

Demographic, socioeconomic, seasonal, and scheduling factors affect the allocation of time to various activities. This paper examines those variables through exploration of the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey, which has been inverted to track activity duration. Two key issues are considered. First, how much can activity duration and frequency explain travel duration? The analysis...

Aiming at the spatial distribution of food industry and its evolving model, this study carries out research on the change characteristics of inner spatial distribution of food industry in Wuhan City and the growth of scale of urban land use. Taking Wuhan City as example, from the perspective of micro-level, this study adopts analyzing technologies and statistic analyzing methods about GIS/SPSS ...

This study examines the temporal and spatial changes in land use as aconsequence of rapid urban development in the city of Beijing. Using a combination oftechniques of remote sensing and GIS, the study identifies a substantial loss of plaindryland and a phenomenal expansion of urban construction land over the recent decade.Geographically, there is a clear shifting of urban construction land fro...