Project 1: Site Selection

Part 1:

Creating a Geometric Bar Plot with your Simple Feature object

  • Select a location. Produce a spatial statistical description of your selected areas administrative subdivisions. Also produce an accompanying geometric bar plot that also describes the population of your selected administrative subdivisions.
  • Select a subdivision from within your initially selected location that will be the bases for your agent-based model. Set the boundary of your selected location such that the aggregate population is between 250,000 and 400,000 persons.
  • Return to the previous exercise and repeat it, although this time produce the spatial statistical description and accompanying geometric barplot for your newly selected, higher resolution focus area with its increased scale.
  • Do your best to include all administrative subdivisions available. If a simple feature object that describes higher resolution administrative subdivisions in their disaggregate (i.e. adm2, adm3 or adm4) is not available from GADM, check other source (geoBoundaries). Additionally, if higher resolution administrative subdivisions are not available, include all of the bordering subdivisions when generating your newly created units spatial description and accompanying bar plot.

Part 2:

De facto description of human settlements and urban areas

  • define de facto settlement boundaries.
  • Continue by further investigating your site for selection by defining de facto settlement boundaries.
  • Continue by further investigating your site for selection by defining de facto settlement boundaries.
  • Increase the scope of your investigation by adding an additional administrative unit or applying the previous exercise to the parent administrative subdivision.
  • Apply Zipf's law

Part 3:

Description of Transport Systems

  • measures of access
  • system description and analysis

Part 4:

Description of Topography

Project 1 deliverables : please include the following

  • Geometric bar plots that describe the population distribution of the political subdivisions associated with your selected location. Include a justification for your selection and a basic description with your plot.
  • Plot of the de facto settlement boundaries with geometric measures of population and density for all locations. Include linear descriptions of all transportation facilities. Also, include a description and analysis of the system of settlements that populate your selected location.
  • Provide an analysis of the system of settlements sizes and relative location to one another.
  • Provide an analysis of the transportation network and its capacity to facilitate access across your selected area.