Making a place for space: Spatial thinking in social science

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 507-524

  Logan, John R ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance; Exposure; Mapping; Segregation; Spatial clustering; Spatial dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864276287     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145531     Document Type: Review

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