Using High-Resolution Population Data to Identify Neighborhoods and Establish Their Boundaries

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-84

  Spielman, Seth E ^a,b   Logan, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

census; geocode; GIS; neighborhood boundaries; urban

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; GIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84870931770     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.685049     Document Type: Article

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