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A Socio-geographic Perspective on Human Activities in Social Media
Ding Ma, Mats Sandberg, Bin Jiang
Location-based social media make it possible to understand social and geographic aspects of human activities. However, previous studies have mostly examined these two aspects separ…
A Topological Representation for Taking Cities as a Coherent Whole
Bin Jiang
A city is a whole, as are all cities in a country. Within a whole, individual cities possess different degrees of wholeness, defined by Christopher Alexander as a life-giving order…
A Complex-Network Perspective on Alexander's Wholeness
Bin Jiang
The wholeness, conceived and developed by Christopher Alexander, is what exists to some degree or other in space and matter, and can be described by precise mathematical language.…
Geospatial Analysis Requires a Different Way of Thinking: The Problem of Spatial Heterogeneity
Bin Jiang
Geospatial analysis is very much dominated by a Gaussian way of thinking, which assumes that things in the world can be characterized by a well-defined mean, i.e., things are more…
Zipf's Law for All the Natural Cities around the World
Bin Jiang, Junjun Yin, Qingling Liu
Two fundamental issues surrounding research on Zipf's law regarding city sizes are whether and why this law holds. This paper does not deal with the latter issue with respect to wh…
The Evolution of Natural Cities from the Perspective of Location-Based Social Media
Bin Jiang, Yufan Miao
This paper examines the former location-based social medium Brightkite, over its three-year life span, based on the concept of natural cities. The term 'natural cities' refers to s…