Measuring the scale of segregation using k-nearest neighbor aggregates

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 34-49

  Östh, John ^a   Clark, William A V ^b   Malmberg, Bo ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NEIGHBORHOOD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922756810     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: 15384632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gean.12053     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Andersson, E. K., and B. Malmberg. (2014). Contextual effects on educational attainment in individualised, scalable neighbourhoods: Differences across gender and social class. Urban Studies:0042098014542487.
2. Getis, A., and J. K. Ord. (1992). "The Analysis of Spatial Association by Use of Distance Statistics." Geographical Analysis 24, 198-206.
3. Jakubs, J. F. (1981). "A Distance-Based Segregation Index." Journal of Socioeconomic Planning Sciences 15, 129-141.
4. Johnston, B., K. Jones, S. Burgess, C. Propper, R. Sarker, and A. Bolster. (2004). "Scale, factor analyses, and neighborhood effects." Geographical Analysis 36(4), 350-368.
5. Krupka, D. J. (2007). "Are Big Cities More Segregated? Neighbourhood Scale and the Measurement of Segregation." Urban Studies 44(1), 187-197.
6. Lee, B. A., S. F. Reardon, G. Firebaugh, C. R. Farrell, S. A. Matthews, and D. O'Sullivan. (2008). "Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales." American Sociological Review 73(5), 766-791.
7. Molina, I. (1997). "Stadens rasifiering: etnisk boendesegregation i folkhemmet." Doctoral, Uppsala universitet, Uppsala, Sweden.
8. Morrill, R. L. (1991). "On the Measure of Geographical Segregation." Geography Research Forum 11, 25-36.
9. National Board of Health and Welfare. (2010). "Social rapport 2010." Stockholm, ISBN 978-91-86585-00-6.
10. O'Sullivan, D., and D. W. S. Wong. (2007). "A Surface-Based Approach to Measuring Spatial Segregation." Geographical Analysis 39(2), 147-168.
11. Openshaw, S. (1984). "The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem." Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography #38 Norwich England, Geo Books.
12. Östh, J. (2014). Introducing the EquiPop software - an application for the calculation of k-nearest neighbour contexts/neighbourhoods. Available from url: http://equipop.kultgeog.uu.se
13. Östh, J., B. Malmberg, and E. Andersson. (2014). "Analysing Segregation with Individualized Neighbourhoods Defined by Population Size." In Social-Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes and Outcomes, 135-161, edited by C. D. Lloyd, I. Shuttleworth and D. Wong. Bristol: Policy Press.
14. Pred, A. (2000). Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces and the Popular Geographical Imagination. Berkeley, CA: UC Press.
15. Reardon, S. F., and G. Firebaugh. (2002). "Measures of Multigroup Segregation." Sociological Methodology 32, 33-67.
16. Reardon, S. F., and D. O'Sullivan. (2004). "Measures of Spatial Segregation." Sociological Methodology 34, 121-162.
17. Reardon, S. F., S. A. Matthews, D. O'Sullivan, B. A. Lee, G. Firebaugh, C. R. Farrell, and K. Bischoff. (2008). "The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation." Demography 45(3), 489-514.
18. Reardon, S. F., C. R. Farrell, S. A. Matthews, D. O'Sullivan, K. Bischoff, and G. Firebaugh. (2009). "Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Geographic Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000." Social Science Research 38(1), 57-72.
19. Tigervall, C., and T. Hubinette. (2010). "Adoption with Complications: Conversations with Adoptees and Adoptive Parents on Everyday Racism and Ethnic Identity." International Social Work 53(4), 489-509.
20. Washington Post. (2008). Iraqi Refugees Find Sweden's Doors Closing, written by Mary Jordan, April 10, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
21. Wong, D. (1999). "Geostatistics as Measures of Spatial Segregation." Urban Geography 20(7), 635-647.
22. Wong, D. (2004). "Comparing Traditional and Spatial Segregation Measures: A Spatial Scale Perspective." Urban Geography 25, 66-82.
23. Wong, D. W. (2005). "Formulating a General Spatial Segregation Measure." Professional Geographer 57(2), 285-294.
24. Wong, D. W. S. (1993). "Spatial Indices of Segregation." Urban Studies 30, 559-572.
25. Wong, D. W. S. (1997). "Spatial Dependency of Segregation Indices." The Canadian Geographer 41, 128-136.