Defensible spaces in Philadelphia: Exploring neighborhood boundaries through spatial analysis

RSF

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 81-101

  Kramer, Rory ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Racial violence; Segregation; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037706924     PISSN: 23778253     EISSN: 23778261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7758/rsf.2017.3.2.04     Document Type: Article

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