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Space-Time Budgets and Activity Studies in Urban Geography and Planning

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  • J Anderson

    (Department of Planning and Urban Design, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London)

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This paper attempts to provide a general perspective on the potentialities and limitations of research into individual activity patterns. The most common types of activity study and data-collecting device are briefly described, and problems of data collection and analysis are outlined. The main focus is on the value of ‘space-time budgets’ in household surveys, assessed with respect to two contrasting aims: (1) deriving ‘behavioural’ postulates on which geographic theories of spatial structure might be based, and (2) planning spatial structures to suit the behaviour patterns and aspirations of different types of individuals and households. Activities occur in a ‘space-time’ continuum’, and there are temporal regularities inherent in spatial patterns. It is argued that studying activity patterns in terms of ‘space-time locations’ can throw light on pressing socio-spatial problems.

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  • J Anderson, 1971. "Space-Time Budgets and Activity Studies in Urban Geography and Planning," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 3(4), pages 353-368, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:3:y:1971:i:4:p:353-368
    DOI: 10.1068/a030353
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    1. Chen, Jie & Shaw, Shih-Lung & Yu, Hongbo & Lu, Feng & Chai, Yanwei & Jia, Qinglei, 2011. "Exploratory data analysis of activity diary data: a space–time GIS approach," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 19(3), pages 394-404.
    2. Michal Isaacson & Noam Shoval & Hans-Werner Wahl & Frank Oswald & Gail Auslander, 2016. "Compliance and data quality in GPS-based studies," Transportation, Springer, vol. 43(1), pages 25-36, January.
    3. Shoval, Noam & Auslander, Gail & Cohen-Shalom, Kineret & Isaacson, Michal & Landau, Ruth & Heinik, Jeremia, 2010. "What can we learn about the mobility of the elderly in the GPS era?," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 18(5), pages 603-612.
    4. Michal Isaacson & Noam Shoval & Hans-Werner Wahl & Frank Oswald & Gail Auslander, 2016. "Compliance and data quality in GPS-based studies," Transportation, Springer, vol. 43(1), pages 25-36, January.
    5. Prem Chhetri & Robert J. Stimson, 2014. "Merging survey and spatial data using GIS-enabled analysis and modelling," Chapters, in: Robert Stimson (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Spatially Integrated Social Science, chapter 23, pages 511-534, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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