[Academic Website]
Fleischmann, M., & Arribas-Bel, D. (2024).
“Decoding (urban) form and function using spatially explicit deep learning”.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 112, 102147.
10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102147
Malleson, N., Franklin, R., Arribas-Bel, D., Cheng, T., & Birkin, M. (2024).
“Digital twins on trial: Can they actually solve wicked societal problems and
change the world for better?”
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(6), 1181-1186.
10.1177/23998083241262893
Kenyon, G.E.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Robinson, C. (2024).
“Extracting Features from Satellite Imagery to Understand
the Size and Scale of Housing Sub-Markets in Madrid”.
Land, 13, 575. 10.3390/land13050575
Kenyon, G.E., Arribas-Bel, D., Robinson, C. et al. (2024).
“Intra-urban house prices in Madrid following the financial crisis:
an exploration of spatial inequality”.
npj Urban Sustain 4, 26 (2024). 10.1038/s42949-024-00161-0
Arribas-Bel, D., & Fleischmann, M. (2024). “In praise of (spatial) bundles”.
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 23998083231224151.
Calafiore, A.; Samardzhiev, K.; Rowe, F.; Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2023)
“Inequalities in experiencing urban functions.
An exploration of human digital (geo-)footprints”.
Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science.
10.1177/23998083231208507.
Salat, H.; Carlino, D.; Benitez-Paez, F.; Zanchetta, A.;
Arribas-Bel, D.; Birkin, M. (2023)
“Synthetic population Catalyst: A micro-simulated population of
England with circadian activities”.
Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science.
10.1177/23998083231203066.
Murphy, J.; Plater, A.; Bird, C.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2023)
“Spatial-temporal variability: characterisation of a beach system
using high resolution radar data”.
Frontiers in Marine Science. Vol. 10.
10.3389/fmars.2023.1142077.
Owen, D.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Rowe, F. (2023).
“Tracking the Transit Divide: A Multilevel Modelling Approach of Urban Inequalities
and Train Ridership Disparities in Chicago”.
Sustainability, 15(11).
10.3390/su15118821.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Fleischmann, M. (2022).
“Spatial Signatures - Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function”.
Habitat International, 128.
10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102641.
GithubFleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2022).
“Geographical characterisation of British urban form and function using the spatial signatures framework”.
Scientific Data, 9, 546.
10.1038/s41597-022-01640-8.
GithubCDRCRowe, F.; Calafiore, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Samardzhiev, K.; Fleischmann, M.
(2022).
“Urban exodus? Understanding human mobility in Britain during the
COVID-19 pandemic using Meta-Facebook data”.
*Population, Space and Place, 29, e2637.
10.1002/psp.2637.
Patias, N.; Rowe, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2022).
“Local urban attributes defining ethnically segregated areas across English cities: A multilevel approach”.
Cities, 132.
10.1016/j.cities.2022.103967.
Samardzhiev, K.; Fleischmann, M.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Calafiore, A.; Rowe, F. (2022).
“Functional signatures in Great Britain: A dataset”.
Data in Brief, 43.
10.1016/j.dib.2022.108335
GithubFigshareComber, S.; Park, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.
“Dynamic-IMD (D-IMD): Introducing activity spaces to deprivation
measurement in London, Birmingham and Liverpool”. (2022).
Cities, 127.
10.1016/j.cities.2022.103733
Chen, M.; Liu, Y.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. (2022).
“Assessing the value of user-generated images of urban surroundings for house price estimation”.
Landscape and Urban Planning, 226. 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104486
Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Murray, J.; Fleischmann, M. (2022).
“Estimating generalized measures of local neighbourhood context from
multispectral satellite images using a convolutional neural network”.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 95.
10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101802
Arribas-Bel, D., Alvanides, S., Batty, M., Crooks, A., See, L., \&
Wolf, L. (2021). “Urban data/code: A new EP-B section”. Environment and
Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(9), 2517-2519.
10.1177/23998083211059670.
Patias, N.; Rowe, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2021). “Trajectories of neighbourhood inequality in Britain: Unpacking inter-regional socioeconomic imbalances, 1971-2011”. The Geographical Journal. 10.1111/geoj.12420.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Green, M.; Rowe, F.; Singleton, A. (2021). “Open data products-A framework for creating valuable analysis ready data”. Journal of Geographical Systems. 10.1007/s10109-021-00363-5
Rey, S. J.; Anselin, L.; Amaral, P.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Cortes, R. X.; Gaboardi, J. D.; Kang, W.; Knaap, E.; Li, Z.; Lumnitz, S.; Oshan, T. M.; Shao, H.; Wolf, L. J. (2021). “The PySAL Ecosystem: Philosophy and Implementation”.
Geographical Analysis. 10.1111/gean.12276
Wolf, L. J.; Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Mobley, L. R. (2021). “On Spatial and Platial Dependence: Examining Shrinkage in Spatially Dependent Multilevel Models”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Patias, N.; Rowe, F.; Cavazzi, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2021). “Sustainable urban development indicators in Great Britain from 2001 to 2016”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 214. 0169-2046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104148
Puente-Ajovin, M.; Ramos, A.; Sanz-Gracia, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2021) “How sensitive is city size distribution to the definition of city? The case of Spain”. Economics Letters.
Liu, Y.; Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Chen, M. (2021) “Identifying and understanding road-constrained areas of interest (AOIs) through spatiotemporal taxi GPS data: A case study in New York City”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 86. j.compenvurbsys.2020.101592
Calafiore, A.; Palmer, G.; Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A.
“A geographic data science framework for the functional and
contextual analysis of human dynamics within global cities”.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 85.
j.compenvurbsys.2020.101539
Arribas-Bel, D.; Garcia-Lopez, M.-A.; Viladecans-Marsal, E. (2021) “Building(s and) cities: Delineating urban areas with a machine learning algorithm”.
Journal of Urban Economics. 10.1016/j.jue.2019.103217
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A.; Dolega, L. (2020) “Using Convolutional Autoencoders to Extract Visual Features of Leisure and Retail Environments”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 202.
Thompson, R. N.; Hollingsworth, T. D; Isham, V.;
Arribas-Bel, D.; Ashby, B.; Britton, T.; Challenor, P.;
Chappell, L. H. K.; Clapham, H.; Cunniffe, N. J.;
Dawid, A. P.; Donnelly, C. A.; Eggo, R. M.; Funk,
S.; Gilbert, N.; Glendinning, P.; Gog, J. R.;
Hart, W. S.; Heesterbeek, H.; House, T.; Keeling, M.;
Kiss, I. Z.; Kretzschmar, M. E.; Lloyd, A. L.;
McBryde, E. S.; McCaw, J. M.; McKinley, T. J.; Miller,
J. C.; Morris, M.; O’Neill, P. D.; Parag, K. V.;
Pearson, C. A. B.; Pellis, L.; Pulliam, J. R. C.; Ross,
J. V.; Tomba, G. S.; Silverman, B. W.;
Struchiner, C. J.; Tildesley, M. J.; Trapman, P.;
Webb, C. R.; Mollison, D.; Restif, O. (2020)
“Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies”.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
287(1932), 20201405. 10.1098/rspb.2020.1405
Franklin, R.; Houlden, V.; Robinson, C.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Delmelle, E. C.; Demsar,U.; Miller, H. J.; O’Sullivan, D. (2020) “Who Counts? Gender, Gatekeeping, and Quantitative Human Geography”. The Professional Geographer.
Boeing, G.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2020) “GIS and Computational
Notebooks”. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of
Knowledge (1st Quarter 2021 Edition), John P. Wilson (Ed.). DOI:
10.22224/gistbok/2021.1.2
Rowe, F., Maier, G., Arribas-Bel, D., & Rey, S.. “The Potential of
Notebooks for Scientific Publication, Reproducibility and Dissemination”.
REGION, 7(3), E1-E5. DOI: 10.18335/region.v7i3.357
Chen, M., Fahrner, D., Arribas-Bel, D. & Rowe, F. “A reproducible
notebook to acquire, process and analyse satellite imagery”, REGION,
7(2), pp. R15-R46. DOI: 10.18335/region.v7i2.295
Olson, A. W.; Zhang, K.; Calderon-Figueroa, F.; Yakubov, R.; Sanner, S.; Silver,D.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2020) “Classification and Regression via Integer Optimization forNeighborhood Change”. Geographical Analysis. 10.1111/gean.12252
Liu, Y.; Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2020) ``Considering Context and Dynamics: A Classification of Transit-Oriented Development for New York
City’’. Journal of Transport Geography, 85. 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102711
Chen, M.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. (2020) Quantifying the Characteristics of the Local Urban Environment through Geotagged Flickr Photographs and Image Recognition. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9, 264.
Lumnitz, S; Arribas-Bel, D.; Cortes, R. X.; Gaboardi, J. D.; Griess, V.; Kang, W.; Oshan, T. M.; Wolf, L.; Rey, S., (2020). splot - visual analytics for spatial statistics. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(47), 1882, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01882
Comber, S; Arribas-Bel, D; Singleton, A; Dong, G; Dolega, L. (2019)
``Building Hierarchies of Retail Centers Using Bayesian Multilevel
Models’’.
Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
10.1080/24694452.2019.1667219
Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2019) “Geographic Data Science”.
Geographical Analysis.10.1111/gean.12194
Stubbings, P.; Peskett, J.; Rowe, F.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2019) “A Hierarchical Urban Forest Index Using Street-Level Imagery and Deep Learning”. Remote Sensing, 11(12). 10.3390/rs11121395
Arribas-Bel, D. “A course on Geographic Data Science”.
The Journal of Open Source Education, 2(14), 42. doi: 10.21105/jose.00042
Comber, S.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2019) “Machine learning innovations in address matching: A practical comparison of word2vec and CRFs”. Transactions in GIS, 23 (2): 334–348.
Liu, Y.; Singleton, A.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2019) “A principal component analysis (PCA)based framework for automated variable selection in geodemographic classifications”. Geo-spatial Information Science. 10.1080/10095020.2019.1621549
Davies, A. E.; Dolega, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2019) “Buy online collect in-store: Exploring grocery click & collect using a national case study”. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management.
Chen, M; Arribas-Bel, D.; Singleton, A. (2019) “Understanding the dynamics of urban areas of interest through volunteered geographic information”. Journal of Geographical Systems.
Dong, G.; Alexiou, A.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Wolf, L.J. (2019) “Inferring neighbourhood
quality with property transaction records by using a locally adaptive spatial multi-level
model”. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Reades, J. (2018) “Geography and Computers: Past, present, and future”. Geography Compass.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Bakens, J. (2018) “Use and Validation of Location-Based Services in Urban Research: An Example with Dutch Restaurants”. Urban Studies.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Bakens, J. (2018) “Spatial dynamics of cultural diversity in the Netherlands”. Environment and Planning B - Urban Analytics and City Science. doi: 10.1177/2399808318783748
Arribas-Bel, D.; Tranos, E. (2018) “Big Urban Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Geographical Analysis”. Editorial. Geographical Analysis.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Tranos, E. (2017). “Characterizing the Spatial Structure(s) of Cities “on the fly”: the Space-Time Calendar”. Geographical Analysis.
Arribas-Bel D., Patino J.E., Duque J.C. (2017). “Remote sensing-based measurement of Living Environment Deprivation: Improving classical approaches with machine learning”. PLOS ONE. 12(5): e0176684.
Gerritse, M.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2017) “Concrete agglomeration benefits: do roads improve urban connections or just attract more people?”. Regional Studies.
Wolf, L.; Anselin, L.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2017). “Stochastic Efficiency of Bayesian MCMC in Spatial Econometric Models: An Empirical Comparison”. Geographical Analysis.
Comber, S., Arribas-Bel D. “’Waiting on the train’: The anticipatory (causal) effects of Crossrail in Ealing”. Journal of Transport Geography. Vol. 64.
Harris, R., O’Sullivan, D., Gahegan, M., Charlton, M., Comber, L., Longley, P., Brunsdon, C., Malleson, N., Heppenstall, A., Singleton, A., Arribas-Bel, D,. Evans, A. (2017) “More bark than bytes? Reflections on 21+ years of geocomputation”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 44(4): 598-617.
Arribas-Bel, D., T. de Graaff and S.J. Rey (2017). “Looking at John Snow’s cholera map from the XXIst century: a practical primer on Reproducibility and Open Science”. In: Regional Research Fontiers (R.W. Jackson and P. Schaeffer, eds.). Springer.
Arribas-Bel, D., Nijkamp, P. and Poot, J. (2016). “How diverse can measures of segregation be? Results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model”. Environment and Planning A. Vol. 48, No. 10.
Folch, D.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Koschinsky, K; Spielman, S. (2016). “Spatial Variation in the Quality of American Community Survey Estimates”. Demography. 53: 1535.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P. (2015) “Socio-Cultural Diversity and Urban Buzz”. Environment and Planning C – Government and Policy, 33: 1-17.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Gerrtise, M. (2015) “From manufacturing belt, to rust belt, to college country - A Visual Narrative of the US Urban Growth”. Environment and Planning A, 47(6): 1241-1253.
Arribas-Bel, D. (2015) “The spoken postcodes”. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2(1): 457-460.
Arribas-Bel, D., Graaff, T. (2015) “WooW-II: Workshop on open workflows”. REGION, 2(2): R1-R2.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Ramos, A.; Sanz Gracia, F. (2015) “The size distribution of employment centers within the U.S. Metropolitan Areas”. Environment and Planning B – Planning and Design, 42: 23-39.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Steenbruggen, J. (2015) “Cyber Cities: Social Media as a Tool for Understanding Cities”. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Sanz Gracia, F. (2014) “The Validity of the Monocentric City Model in a Polycentric Age: US Metropolitan areas in 1990, 2000 and 2010”. Urban Geography, 35(7): 980-997.
Arribas-Bel, D. (2014) “Spatial Data, Analysis, and Regression - A mini course”. REGION, 1(1): R1.
Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2014) “Migrant Entrepreneurs as Urban ‘Health Angels’ – Contrasts in Growth Strategies”. International Planning Studies.
Arribas-Bel, D. (2014) “Accidental, Open and Everywhere: Emerging Data Sources for the Understanding of Cities”. Applied Geography, 49: 45-53.
Arribas-Bel, D., Schmidt, C. R. (2013). “Self-organizing maps and the US urban spatial structure” Environment and Planning B, 2: 362-371.
Arribas-Bel, D., Kourtit, K., Nijkamp, P. (2013). “Benchmarking of World cities through self-organizing maps” Cities, 31: 248-257.
Anselin, L., Arribas-Bel, D. (2013) “Spatial fixed effects and spatial dependence in a single cross-section” Papers in Regional Science 92(1): 3-17.
Amaral, P. V., Anselin, L., Arribas-Bel, D. (2013) “Testing for spatial error dependence in probit models” Letters in Spatial Resource and Sciences, 6(2): 91-101.
Arribas-Bel, D. and Gerritse, M. (2012) “Monocentricity? Commuting flows visually.” Featured Graphic, Environment and Planning A. 44(9): 2041 - 2042
Kourtit, K., Nijkamp, P., Arribas-Bel, D. (2012) “Smart Cities Perspective - a Comparative European Study by Means of Self-Organizing Maps” Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 25(2):229-246.
Arribas-Bel, D., Sanz-Gracia, F., Ximenez-de-Embun, D. P. (2012) “Kangaroos, cities and space: a first approach to the Australian urban system” Region et Developpement, 36: 165-187.
Kourtit, K., Arribas-Bel, D., Nijkamp, P. (2012) “High Performers in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands” The Annals of Regional Science, 48(2):501-527.
Arribas-Bel, D.; Koschinsky, J. and Amaral, P. V. (2012) “Improving the Multi-Dimensional Comparison of Simulation Results: A Spatial Visualization Approach” Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 5(2): 55-63
Arribas-Bel, D.; Nijkamp, P. and Schoelten, H. (2011) “Multidimensional urban sprawl in Europe: a self-organizing map approach” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 35(4):265 - 275.
Rey, S.J.; Anselin, L.; Folch, D.C.; Arribas-Bel, D.; Sastre Gutierrez, M.L. and Interlante, L. “Measuring Spatial Dynamics in Metropolitan Areas”. Economic Development Quarterly, 25(1): 54-64.
Arribas-Bel, D., Graser, A. Geographic data science: a manifesto. In A Research Agenda for Spatial Analysis, edited by Levi John Wolf, Richard Harris, and Alison Heppenstall. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 978 1 80220 322 6.
Arribas-Bel, D., Rowe, F., Chen, M., & Comber, S. An image library:
The potential of imagery in (quantitative) social sciences. In Handbook
of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences (pp. 528-543).
Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903942.00042
Arribas-Bel, D. Statistics, Modelling, and Data Science. In Digital Geographies (Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A., eds.), pp. 129-140. SAGE.
de Graaff, T; Arribas-Bel, D.; Ozgen, C. (2018) “Demographic Aging and Employment Dynamics in German Regions: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity”. In Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets (pp. 211-231). Springer, Cham.
Kourtit, K.; Nijkamp, P.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2013) “The Creative Urban Diaspora Economy: A Disparity Analysis among Migrant Entrepreneurs.” In: Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies (Kresl, P., Vaughan, C.P, Sobrino, J., eds.).
Arribas-Bel, D.; Tranos, E. (2016) “Characterizing the Spatial Structure(s) of Cities “on the fly”: the Space- Time LISA Calendar”. [SSRN]
Arribas-Bel, D.; Sanz Gracia, F. (2013) “On the existence of agglomeration shadows at the metropolitan level”.
Anselin, L; Amaral, P. V.; Arribas-Bel, D. (2012) “Technical Aspects of Implementing GMM Estimation of the Spatial Error Model in PySAL and GeoDaSpace”. GeoDa Center Technical Report.