Activity spaces and sociospatial segregation in Beijing

Urban Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 256-277

  Wang, Donggen ^a   Li, Fei ^a   Chai, Yanwei ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

activity space; Beijing; economically privileged enclaves; institutionally privileged enclaves; Sociospatial segregation; spatiotemporal approach

Indexed keywords

ENCLAVE; GATED COMMUNITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; URBAN AREA;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84859806517     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.33.2.256     Document Type: Article

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