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Sixteen years ago, Franklin estimated that about 80% of data contain geo-referenced
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problems. The geocomputational analysis discussed in this volume, could be
classified according to three main domains of applications; the first one related to
spatial decision support system and to spatial uncertainty, the second connected to
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Beniamino Murgante Alessandra Lapucci
Department of Architecture Department of Civil Engineering
Urban and Regional Planning Laboratory of Territorial and Environmental
Transport Planning and Infrastructure Systems Engineering
Laboratory of Urban and Territorial Systems University of Pisa
University of Basilicata Via Diotisalvi, 2
Viale dell ’Ateneo Lucano, 10 56126 Pisa
85100 - Potenza Italy
Italy Email: alessandra.lapucci@ing.unipi.it
Email: beniamino.murgante@unibas.it

Giuseppe Borruso
Department of Geographical and Historical
Sciences
University of Trieste
P.le Europa, 1
34127 Trieste
Italy
Email: giuseppe.borruso@econ.units.it

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Contents

Geocomputation and Urban Planning

Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso, Alessandra Lapucci . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Detection of Urban Socio-economic Patterns Using Clustering
Techniques
Devis Tuia, Christian Kaiser, Antonio daCunha, Mikhail Kanevski . . . . . . 19
A Tale of Two Cities: Density Analysis of CBD on Two
Midsize Urban Areas in Northeastern Italy
Giuseppe Borruso, Andrea Porceddu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Identification of “Hot Spots” of Social and Housing Difficulty
in Urban Areas: Scan Statistic for Housing Market and Urban
Planning Policies
Silvestro Montrone, Paola Perchinunno, Antonella Di Giuro,
Francesco Rotondo, Carmelo Maria Torre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The Town at the End of the Town: Integration and Segregation
in Suburbia
Valerio Cutini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Planning Evacuation by Means of a Multi-modal Mesoscopic
Dynamic Traffic Simulation Model
Massimo Di Gangi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Improving Moran’s Index to Identify Hot Spots in Traffic
Safety
Elke Moons, Tom Brijs, Geert Wets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Visual Impact Assessment in Urban Planning
Maria Danese, Gabriele Nolè, Beniamino Murgante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
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Urban Roughness Parameters Calculation in the City of

Rome by Applying Analytical and Simplified Formulations:
Comparison of Results
Maria Ioannilli, Enrico Rocchi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
An Object-Oriented Model for the Sustainable Management
of Evolving Spatio-temporal Information
Christine Plumejeaud, Bogdan Moisuc, Sandro Bimonte,
Marlène Villanova, Jérôme Gensel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
GIS and LIDAR Data Analysis for the Integration of
Multidimensional Indicators on Urban Morphogenesis
Multi-agent Vector Based Geosimulation
Cláudio Carneiro, François Golay, Vitor Silva, Corinne Plazanet,
Jong-Jin Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Urban Pattern Morphology Time Variation in Southern Italy
by Using Landsat Imagery
Luciano Telesca, Rosa Coluzzi, Rosa Lasaponara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Predicting the Urban Spread Using Spatio-morphological
Models
Christine Voiron-Canicio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
A Multi-Agent Geosimulation Infrastructure for Planning
Ivan Blecic, Arnaldo Cecchini, Giuseppe A. Trunfio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
A Participative Multi Agent System for Urban Sustainable
Mobility
Alessandra Lapucci, Silvana Lombardo, Massimiliano Petri,
Marco Rotonda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Author Index

Bimonte, Sandro 167 Moons, Elke 117

Blecic, Ivan 237 Murgante, Beniamino 1, 133
Borruso, Giuseppe 1, 37
Brijs, Tom 117 Nolè, Gabriele 133

Carneiro, Cláudio 187 Park, Jong-Jin 187

Cecchini, Arnaldo 237 Perchinunno, Paola 57
Coluzzi, Rosa 209 Petri, Massimiliano 255
Cutini, Valerio 79 Plazanet, Corinne 187
Plumejeaud, Christine 167
daCunha, Antonio 19
Porceddu, Andrea 37
Danese, Maria 133
Di Gangi, Massimo 99
Rocchi, Enrico 147
Di Giuro, Antonella 57
Rotonda, Marco 255
Gensel, Jérôme 167 Rotondo, Francesco 57
Golay, François 187
Silva, Vitor 187
Ioannilli, Maria 147
Telesca, Luciano 209
Kaiser, Christian 19
Torre, Carmelo Maria 57
Kanevski, Mikhail 19
Trunfio, Giuseppe A. 237
Lapucci, Alessandra 1, 255 Tuia, Devis 19
Lasaponara, Rosa 209
Lombardo, Silvana 255 Villanova, Marlène 167
Voiron-Canicio, Christine 223
Moisuc, Bogdan 167
Montrone, Silvestro 57 Wets, Geert 117