Paul Waddell is a professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching focus on planning and modeling cities, with particular emphasis on the interactive impacts of of land use regulations and investment in transportation and other infrastructure.
Samuel Maurer is a Ph.D. student in city planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked on urban mapping, simulation modeling, and economic forecasting for a variety of public and private sector organizations. His interests include land use typologies and travel behavior.
The origin of this book is as a set of notes for a graduate course in land and housing markets in the masters program in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. The aim of the course is to engage students in theory and data that helps to understand how markets and governments interact to shape cities and metropolitan regions, with a special focus on land and housing markets.
The material in this book should not require a strong quantitative or programming background, but will contain some technical material, hopefully presented in an reasonably accessible way. More technical treatment will be provided separately.
This book has been written in restructured text format and generated using the rst2html.py command line available from the docutils python package. The format and idea for writing it in restructured text format came from this project of Nicholas P. Rougier: https://github.com/rougier/from-python-to-numpy. I have shamelessly borrowed his templates and style to get this project underway. Besides the formatting, there is no overlap with Rougier's project, however.
If you want to rebuild the html output, from the top directory, type:
$ rst2html.py --link-stylesheet --cloak-email-addresses \
--toc-top-backlinks --stylesheet=book.css \
--stylesheet-dirs=. book.rst book.html
The sources are available from https://github.com/waddell/urban-analytics-and-planning.
If you want to contribute to this book, you can:
- Review chapters (please contact me)
- Report issues (https://github.com/waddell/urban-analytics-and-planning/issues)
- Suggest improvements (https://github.com/waddell/urban-analytics-and-planning/pulls)
- Star the project (https://github.com/waddell/urban-analytics-and-planning)
If you're an editor interested in publishing this book, you can contact me
Code
The code is licensed under the OSI-approved BSD 2-Clause License.