Spatial measures of segregation and gis1

Urban Geography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-92

  Wong, David W S ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcview GIS; Dissimilarity index; Spatial information; Spatial segregation

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; GIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036382222     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.23.1.85     Document Type: Article

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