A Multiscalar Analysis of Neighborhood Composition in Los Angeles, 2000–2010: A Location-Based Approach to Segregation and Diversity

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1260-1284

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ethnicity; neighborhoods; residential patterns; scale; segregation

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; METROPOLITAN AREA; NEIGHBORHOOD; RACE; SOCIAL SEGREGATION;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945474368     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1072790     Document Type: Article

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