An initial exploration of a lacunarity-based segregation measure

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 433-446

  Wu, X Ben ^a   Sui, Daniel Z ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; METHODOLOGY; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034997348     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b2736     Document Type: Article

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