I recently attended a workshop organised by the SPatial Analysis Research Center at Arizona State University which was focused on a discussion around a whole series of questions pertaining to scale but where the emphasis was largely on inductive models for extracting meaningful scale from areal data. The workshop threw up many questions involving what we mean by scale, the ambiguities posed by its definition, and how the objects and processes forming the phenomena in question were transformed with respect to scale when they changed in size. I will not repeat the way the workshop was organised – you can read about it on the relevant website https://sgsup.asu.edu/sparc/workshops – but suffice it to say that as soon as the workshop began, the range of contributions revealed (to me) a considerably wider portfolio of ideas, both methodological and substantive, with respect to the concepts of scale in question than anything that I had anticipated in reflecting on the meeting beforehand.

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规模和大小

最近，我参加了举办的研讨会SP atial一nalysis [R esearch Ç进入亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University），该研究的重点是围绕与规模有关的一系列问题的讨论，但重点主要是从面积数据中提取有意义的尺度的归纳模型。讲习班提出了许多问题，涉及到我们所谓的尺度是什么，其定义所造成的歧义以及构成这些现象的对象和过程在大小改变时如何按比例转换。我不会重复讲习班的组织方式–您可以在相关网站https://sgsup.asu.edu/sparc/workshops上进行了解–但可以肯定地说，讲习班一开始，其范围（对我而言）的贡献揭示了方法论和实质性思想的广泛组合，