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UNINA9910144251503321 |
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Autore |
Benenson Itzhak |
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Titolo |
Geosimulation: Automata-Based Modeling of Urban Phenomena |
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[Place of publication not identified], : John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 2004 |
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1-280-55431-2 |
9786610554317 |
0-470-02099-7 |
0-470-02098-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (303 pages) |
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Urban geography - Simulation methods |
Urban geography - Computer simulation |
Anthropogeography & Human Ecology |
Geography-General |
Anthropology |
Geography |
Social Sciences |
Earth & Environmental Sciences |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Geosimulation is hailed as 'the next big thing' in geographic modelling for urban studies. This book presents readers with an overview of this new and innovative field by introducing the spatial modelling environment and describing the latest research and development using cellular automata and multi-agent systems. Extensive case studies and working code is available from an associated website which demonstrate the technicalities of geosimulation, and provide readers with the tools to carry out their own modelling and testing. |
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UNINA9910457294803321 |
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Autore |
DeMillo Richard A |
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Abelard to Apple [[electronic resource] ] : the fate of American colleges and universities / / Richard A. DeMillo |
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Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2011 |
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1-283-30278-0 |
9786613302786 |
0-262-29850-3 |
0-262-29761-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (339 p.) |
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Universities and colleges - United States |
Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States |
Educational change - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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How institutions of higher learning can rescue themselves from irrelevance and marginalization in the age of iTunes U and YouTube EDU.The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle--reputable educational institutions, but not considered equal to the elite and entrenched upper echelon of the Ivy League and other prestigious schools. Richard DeMillo has a warning for these colleges and universities in the Middle: If you do not change, you are heading for irrelevance and marginalization. In Abelard to Apple, DeMillo argues that these institutions, clinging precariously to a centuries-old model of higher education, are ignoring the social, historical, and economic forces at work in today's world. In the age of iTunes, open source software, and for-profit online universities, there are new rules for higher education.DeMillo, who has spent years in both academia and in industry, explains how higher education arrived at its current parlous state and offers a road map for the twenty-first |
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century. He describes the evolving model for higher education, from European universities based on a medieval model to American land-grant colleges to Apple's iTunes U and MIT's OpenCourseWare. He offers ten rules to help colleges reinvent themselves (including "Don't romanticize your weaknesses") and argues for a focus on teaching undergraduates. DeMillo's message--for colleges and universities, students, alumni, parents, employers, and politicians--is that any college or university can change course if it defines a compelling value proposition (one not based in "institutional envy" of Harvard and Berkeley) and imagines an institution that delivers it. |
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