Neighborhood contexts, health, and behavior: Understanding the role of scale and residential sorting

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 489-506

  Spielman, Seth E ^a   Yoo, Eun Hye ^b   Linkletter, Crystal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Geographic scale; Neighborhood effects; Residential sorting; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOCATION-ALLOCATION MODEL; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84878438562     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b38007     Document Type: Article

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