Spatial Supermarket Redlining and Neighborhood Vulnerability: A Case Study of Hartford, Connecticut

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 79-100

  Zhang, Mengyao ^a   Ghosh, Debarchana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETAIL STORES;

CASE-STUDIES; DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBOURHOODS; HEALTHY FOODS; IMPACT MODELLING; NEIGHBOURHOOD; POPULATION DENSITIES; SALE VOLUMES; SERVICE AREA; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

GIS; MAP; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC ACCESS; RETAILING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERMARKET; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

CONNECTICUT; HARTFORD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955406540     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12142     Document Type: Article

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