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from wolfing down donuts to relishing the French Pâtisserie with a capital letter,  from being airy-fairy to becoming (quite) a serious mother.  To Camil, the Naruro boy without whose unvarying emotional realm of love and a constant smile this thesis would have been completed in half the time. To Camil to decided to cheerfully teethe when I was trying to finish my thesis.     to To  Prof. André de Palma who made me stay in Paris after my Master Program. Program;  to Saif. with whom we shared the desk at the E.N.S. Cachan office and without whom playing music at 9 P.M. while taking a break from work would not be fun otherwise. otherwise;  to all the 7th EU Framework Program SustainCity Project people.    to To  my international family: the Erasmus Mundus Program people who not only substituted my family but rather perfectly complemented it, and in particular, to Alice for sending me nicely strong Karma coffee from the Laos mountains and lemongrass tea from Thailand to wind down from the coffee effect, to Esfandiar, to Yan, to my Kabutar Mina for millions "miss you", "miss you" words!, to my fantastic xxx friend Tara, and my Chinese little sister Guodi. To my second international family for sharing the floor in the American Fondation:  to my favorite dancing Rida for her never-failing optimism, to my American Polish brother Mark Zaborowski, to multitalented Baidy, and to Tierra for her writing talent who helped me struggle through my very first scientific paper.  to my second international family for sharing the floor in the American Fondation:  to my favorite dancing Rida for her never-failing optimism, to my American Polish brother Mark Zaborowski, to multitalented Baidy, and to Tierra for her writing talent who helped me struggle through my very first scientific paper.   To my Ana, the real fighter and the Taekwondo Master for <3 and accepting me as I am;  To Gordon Bowker, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl for founding Starbucks, so that we could worked there with Ana;  to Meno, to Vadim, to godfather Marouene, to Adams, the tektonic specialist and the best uncle, to Hamza, to Heric for xxx, to the most talented and probably the youngest Senior Researcher from the Statistics Finland. Hi Henri.  to my Ana, the fighter, ((Taekwondo Master)) for ...  to Gordon Bowker, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl for founding Starbucks, so that we could worked there with Ana.   to Meno, to Vadim, to godfather Marouene, to Adams, the tektonic specialist and the best uncle, to Hamza, to Heric for xxx, to the most talented and probably the youngest Senior Researcher from the Statistics Finland. Hi Henri.   To people from Ifsttar and the Laboratory DEST:  to Benoit for showing me how cool French people can be;  to "super irritating" David and for teaching me how to have a bigger distance to myself, who kept on reminding me not to take myself too seriously;  to Katia, Christine, and Hoai-Thu, the Ifsttar super mothers!;  to the most original and the best coiffée X from the Ifsttar cafeteria for providing the strong enough coffee.  to people from Ifsttar and the Laboratory DEST,   to Benoit for showing me how cool French people can be.  to "super irritating" David and for teaching me how to have a bigger distance to myself.  to Katia, Christine, and Hoai-Thu, the Ifsttar super mothers!  to the most original and the best coiffée X from the Ifsttar cafeteria for providing the strong enough coffee.   to To  Prof. Michel Bierlaire who let me join his fantastic team at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne for a couple of months during my thesis and who gave me the chance to answer correctly maybe two out of his hundreds super challenging questions and to all the members of his team: always in trouble Yousef, Shadi, Marija, the genius Iliya, eating porridge at 4 P.M. Flurin, Antonin, running fast Tomas, Evantia, Ana, and x. to To  my heroes: to Prof. Anselin who I never met in my life but who made me responsible for my  love to  spatial analysis. analysis and whose work in many ways motivated this project;  to my idol, Prof. LeSage who I had a tremendous honor to meet and talk to about my research. research, and whose comments helped clarify my own thinking;  to Prof. Krzysztof Malaga, a definition of hard work and a great example to the students.  to To  Matthieu the best supervisor you could imagine to have, work with,  to whom I have a huge respect forbeing  not only being  a great teacher, professional mentor,  but especially a great human. and finally, Finally, I am most deeply indebted  to the closest ones: to my father, the best advice-giver, and the fantastic professor, who install within me a love of science, who encouraged me to change my study field from finance and banking to econometrics.   to my father (the same one) to whom I promised that I will never ever go for a PhD. He waited for a moment and said... "Oh yes, darling, you will";  to my mom for her never-ever support (... literraly, for sending me thousand Whatsapp, Facebook, gmail, phone... messages a day;  to my grandma, the most energetic grandma on earth, I guess;  to my older (and of course more clever) sister Kamila for being an inspiration in all the life domains;  to the best-est Marta. "Best" would not be enough in her case. Yyyyes!  to Adel, the biggest Cyril Lignac eater, the best car driver I've got to know, the most dedicated father, and the best husband.  ... and  to my father, Camil,  the best advice-giver, Naruro boy without whose unvarying emotional realm of love  and a constant smile this thesis would have been completed in half  the fantastic professor, who encouraged me time. To Camil  to change my study field from finance and banking decided  to econometrics. cheerfully teethe when I was trying  to finish  my father (the same one) to whom I promised that I will never ever go for a PhD. He waited for a moment and said... "Oh yes, darling, you will". thesis.  to the best-est Marta. Best would not be enough in her case. Yyyyes!  to Adel, the biggest Cyril Lignac eater, the best car driver I've got to know, and the most dedicated father  to my sister Kamila.   to my grandma, the most energetic grandma on earth, I guess.   to my mom.   Love you guys.