Determinants of residential location choice : how important are local public goods in attracting homeowners to central city location
Collective goods ; Inner city ; Location ; Logit model ; Ohio ; Public service ; Residential choice ; Residential location ; Suburbanization ; United States of America
Channel head location and characteristics using digital elevation models
extent channel head location can be predicted by the area-slope relationship and the cumulative area distribution. The effect of digital elevation model grid resolution on the ability to locate channel head position and assess hillslope length will also
Landslide locations and drainage network development : a case study of Hong Kong
This research examined landslide locations with reference to theories of fluvial drainage development. In Hong Kong, eight small drainage basins were studied in which 451 landslides were recorded. Results have shown that landslide locations
Plant location and the advent of slab casting by U.S. steel minimills : an observation-based analysis
Diffusion of innovations ; Firm strategy ; Human capital ; Industrial location ; Market ; Proximity ; Raw materials ; Steel ; Steel industry ; United States of America
Historic centre ; Location ; Poland ; Territorial identity ; Town ; Twentieth Century ; Urban population
territorial extents are reflected in the national Censuses of 1931, 1950 and 2002. Centroids were found to change location in relation to the changing territorial identity of Poland, its number of towns and cities and level of urbanisation. Also very
favourable is the location and shape of the standard deviational ellipse, which attests to a very beneficial (though not ideal) geographical distribution of urban centres across Polish geographical space. - (BJ)
Direct investment ; Foreign investment ; Investment ; Location ; Lodz ; Poland ; Theory ; Town
A review of the most important theories accounting for the location of foreign direct investment is followed by a discussion of the development within it of foreign capital. A presentation of the level of incoming FDI into Łódź is than followed
by a discussion of the primary measure employed in this work, i.e. Moran's local statistic (of spatial autocorrelation) (Ii), as used to analyse spatial locations for FDI. the analysis makes it clear that the Special Economic Zone has been the main magnet
The immigrant household and spatial assimilation : partnership, nativity, and neighborhood location
Assimilation ; California ; Decision ; Ethnic community ; Family ; Los Angeles ; Residential choice ; Residential location ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban district ; Urban immigration