This PhD research would not have been possible without the support and help of many people around me. All the blogs in here are a team effort, which has been supported by Adam, Thomas and Robin.
I would like to extend my deep appreciation to those people who have kindly assisted and significantly supported me during my PhD studies, including Yi Wang, Jane Galbraith (UCL statisitc), Rob Liddiard (UCL energy institute), Rex Galbraith (UCL statisitc), Owen Nicholas (UCL statisitc), Sheng Zhou (OS), Martin Zaltz Austwick, Rosie McKay, Christopher Charlton (University of Bristol), Caroline Bray (Land Registry), David Lockett (Land Registry), Richard Milton(UCL CASA), Flora Roumpani, Zhoupeng Ren, Polly Hudson, Mengqiu Cao, Guanpeng(Gavin) Dong, Neal Hudson, Yuqi Liu, Cecilia Chan, Jessica Williamson (MHCLG), Jake Mulley (MHCLG), Anca Vlad (UK Data Service), Cristina Magder (UK Data Service), Yu(Steven) Zhang, Calvin Chung, Angela Cooper (UCL CLIE), Tony Mulhall (RICS) and Simon Rubinsohn (RICS).
I would also like to thank all staff members and colleagues from the Bartlett Centre for Advance Spatial Analysis at UCL, they create a nice and friendly working environment for my research.
I would also like to sincerely thank Ordnance Survey for supply of huge amount data in this research, in particular I would like thank Nick Groome, OS technique team and EDNIA.