Consider a problem where <italic>N</italic> items (objects or individuals) are judged by assessors using their perceptions of a set of performance criteria, or alternatively by technical devices. In particular, two assessors might rank the items between 1 and <italic>N</italic> on the basis of relative performance, independently...

<italic>Do contemporary communications cumulatively undermine the city, culminating in its end? Peter Hall's survey of the available evidence lends support to the claim for the continuing relevance of agglomeration as the “urban glue”. He explores the extent to which telecommuting supplements rather...</italic>

The book <roman>London Voices London Lives: Notes from a Working Capital,</roman> published in summer 2007, has two affinities: written by Michael Young’s successor at the Institute of Community Studies, it appeared almost exactly fifty years after <roman>Family and Kinship in East London,</roman> and it presents the...

Despite its importance as a formative influence in evolutionary biology, the notion of isolation has received relatively little attention in evolutionary economics and its application to technological innovation. This paper makes the case that isolation, in many guises, is a pervasive and...

In the analysis of microarray data, and in some other contemporary statistical problems, it is not uncommon to apply hypothesis tests in a highly simultaneous way. The number, N say, of tests used can be much larger than the sample sizes, n, to which the tests are applied, yet we wish to...

Relationships between modal split for the journey to work and patterns of social and economic activity in large urban areas are investigated in this paper. Small zone data from six major land-use transportation studies were used as a basis for a systematic comparative analysis of these...

The paper describes seven major forces which are currently affecting the spatial structure of urban Europe. Globalisation of the world economy has emphasised comparative advantage leading to the deindustrialisation of many older cities and the emergence of a very select group of Eurocities....