http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1640 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:36:03 GMT 2013-05-24T05:36:03Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3734 Title: Exploring local variations during the transition from a multimodal to a unimodal transit network in mid-twentieth century Edinburgh Authors: Cunningham, Angela R Abstract: In the 1950s, Edinburgh transitioned from a multimodal public transit system based on buses and electric trams to a system based solely on the former. This dissertation examines the implications of this change at a local level. There are two different but interrelated issues in examining local variations: inter-neighbourhood and intra-neighbourhood variation. Identifying two pairs of neighbourhoods with comparable initial transit and socioeconomic states, known divergences in transit modality and measurable end states, this study sought to illuminate these variations using a two-pronged methodology, a syncretic approach which allowed each line of inquiry to strengthen the other. While the use of intersections, GRID analysis and self organising maps for visualisation were largely successful, the use of robust statistical methods for formal hypothesis testing proved problematic. Statistics were ultimately used in an exploratory manner alongside the other techniques to elucidate the city’s relationship with public transit in general and with the trams in particular. Considering rent as a measure of locational desirability in comparison with alterations in accessibility, how were Edinburgh’s neighbourhoods impacted by the replacement of trams by buses? While certain patterns of socioeconomic and accessibility variables were found to coincide, no effect of the modal change could be definitively perceived within the studied time frame. Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3734 2010-11-24T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2479 Title: Mapping mayhem in the city? Authors: Bates, Ellie Abstract: Mapping mayhem in the city? Exploring the space time dynamics of criminal damage and alcohol with Geovisualisation and ESDA. This research examines if the combination of criminal damage and alcohol leads to mayhem in the city and if the attempt to examine this relationship using maps and number is a recipe for mayhem in itself. An exploratory spatial data analysis and geovisualisation approach has been found to be a practically adequate method to explore the dynamics of patterns of criminal damage in space and time. This research highlights the importance of considering crime patterns at both micro and meso spatial and temporal scales. Criminal damage is found to be differently distributed in both space and time, with particular concentrations in the centre of the city study area, at weekend and from 5pm to 2am. Using number and maps alone without a wider context of understanding of other policy initiatives may be insufficient to understand crime patterns; instead a mixed methods approach is recommended. Exploratory spatial analysis, geovisualisation and crime mapping are used to explore potential links between spatial and temporal alcohol availability and spatial and temporal patterns of criminal damage. Links appear inconclusive except in the city centre where there is a stronger relationship. A major government policy change to licensing law in England and Wales is shown to affect spatial and temporal distribution of criminal damage between midnight and 4am in the city centre. Crime pattern and temporal constraint theory offer practically adequate explanations of potential relationships between criminal damage and alcohol in a city centre. Further research to understand underlying processes is needed for a fuller picture. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2479 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z