Poverty, prosperity, and place: The shape of class segregation in the age of extremes

Social Problems

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 114-137

  Dwyer, Rachel W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affluence; Inequality; Poverty; Residential segregation; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549111406     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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