Network Science of Cities
Course Number: URSC 689
Course Title: Network Science of Cities
Section: 601
Time: 05:30 pm-08:30 pm, Every Tuesday, Fall 2022
Location: ARCA 303
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor: Xinyue Ye
Office: Langford A 306
E-Mail: xinyue.ye@tamu.edu
Course Description
Human being is always curious about how things are related in the world. For thousands of years people are looking for ways to model the world through arts, natural sciences, and social sciences. Network Modeling is one of the prevalence and breakthrough technologies that trying to unravel the mystery of connectivity of the world. Cities are systems composed of flows and networks. Nowadays, urban researchers are using network science with Geographic Information Science (GIS) to explore and analyze the evolving connections among urban elements. In the meantime, more and more virtual networks have spatial characteristics which bring researchers opportunity to study information diffusion and human behavior across urban space. This course will focus on theoretical and substantive themes within network and flow in the cities. Basic knowledge of network elements as well as tools for spatial network analysis and visualization will be covered in this course followed by several case studies.
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Foundations of Research
Course Number: CARC 601
Course Title: Foundations of Research
Section: 600
Time: 02:20 pm-03:35 pm, TR, Fall 2022
Location: ARCA 403
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor: Xinyue Ye
Office: Langford A 306
Phone: 979.458.4306
E-Mail: xinyue.ye@tamu.edu
Office Hours: TBD, by appointment
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the research process and its application to problems in planning and design; presentation of philosophy and logic underlying the scientific method; critical analysis of planning and design literature according to each step of the research process: problem definition, hypothesis development, study design, analysis and interpretation of the findings. For doctoral students in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, this course is the first in a series of courses that will introduce you to the research process–how to formulate a research question, justify the need for your research, and develop an approach to your research. While I understand that you may not know what your dissertation will be, this course helps you understand how to develop a dissertation topic and write a draft proposal.
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Programming for Urban and Regional Analytics
Course Number: URSC 689
Course Title: Programming for Urban and Regional Analytics
Section:
Time: 05:30 pm-08:30 pm, Every Tuesday, Spring 2023
Location: ARCA 303
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor: Xinyue Ye
Office: ARCA 306
Phone:
E-Mail: xinyue.ye@tamu.edu
Office Hours: TBD, by appointment
Course Description
This course introduces Python programming for Urban and Regional Informatics. Concepts of object-oriented programming and scripting will be presented. Students can develop Python programming/scripting skills fundamental to the automation of urban and regional data manipulation and analysis. Besides receiving hands-on experience through designed labs, students will work on an individual term project. By the end of this course, you will: 1) Understand programming concepts, methods, and approaches; 2) Possess programming technique skills to explore and model urban and regional data.
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