Urban Information and Preference Surfaces: Their Patterns, Structures, and Interrelationships

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Abstract
The urban information and preference surfaces possessed by a group of residents living in West Los Angeles are investigated. It is demonstrated, using trend surface analysis, that these surfaces are extremely convoluted. However, the variations in both the surfaces can be accounted for by gravity model formulations. The underlying structures of the information and preference patterns, as revealed by principal components analysis, are more difficult to disentangle, although they do suggest some of the evaluative dimensions upon which these patterns are based. There is no evidence, on the basis of canonical correlation analysis, that the two structures are strongly related.

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