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Tracking Land Use Change in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region
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Tracking Land Use Change in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region
Tracking Land Use Change in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
3:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m., CST
Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 1130
111 Church Street SE,
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Twin Cities - East Bank
This workshop will give an overview of recent work in developing methods to predict land use change for the Twin Cities region.
Since this work is related to the larger “Access to Destinations” study, there will be some additional emphasis on the influence
of transportation networks in shaping regional growth. Some historical background will be given on the ways that researchers have
sought to understand and predict changes in urban land use. Then, we will proceed to describe several different methods that we
have applied to the Twin Cities. These methods seek to capture a number of important aspects of land use change, such as
neighborhood effects and historical dependence, and make use of a unique, cell-level land use data set developed for the Twin
Cities, covering the years 1958 to 2005. Some conclusions will be drawn regarding the relative strengths and weaknesses of these
methods in predicting future land use change.
Speaker
Michael Iacono
- Research Fellow with the Active Communities and Transportation (ACT) Research Group at the
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Networks
- Economics and Urban Systems (NeXuS) Research Group in the Department of Civil Engineering at the
University of Minnesota
David Levinson,
- Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
- Richard P. Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation Engineering
Workshop webcast
A free video webcast of this event will be provided by the Center for Transportation Studies. A link to the webcast
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Parking and Transit
Parking is available at the Washington
Avenue Ramp at the Oak
Street Ramp two blocks further east. For transit information
call Metro Transit at 612-373-3333 or visit www.metrotransit.org.
Sponsors
This event is sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Center
for Transportation Studies through a grant provided by the McKnight Foundation.
Cost
There is no cost to attend. Registration is not required.
Credit
Each workshop may qualify for Professional Development Hours.
