Maintaining existing zoning systems using automated zone-design techniques: Methods for creating the 2011 census output geographies for England and Wales

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2399-2418

  Cockings, Samantha ^a   Harfoot, Andrew ^a   Martin, David ^a   Hornby, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HOMOGENEITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; ZONING SYSTEM;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 80055047216     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a43601     Document Type: Article

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