A Multivariate Analysis Of The Space Syntax Output For The Definition Of Strata In Street Security Surveys

Enrico di Bella (), Luca Persico () and Matteo Corsi ()
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Enrico di Bella: DIEM, University of Genoa, Italy
Luca Persico: DIEM, University of Genoa, Italy

No 5/2011, DEP - series of economic working papers from University of Genoa, Research Doctorate in Public Economics

Abstract: Although the connection between crime and urban layout is generally evident, surveys inquiring that relationship are often facing two different problems: areas with high criminality are often inhabited by partially elusive populations (being stowaways) and the urban structure (e.g. length and width of streets) quickly changes even after a few corners. In this work a combination of two techniques well known in their specific field is proposed to define a simple two-stages sampling design. Space Syntax is a set of measurements which are done on the topographic maps of a town with the division of all the roads into segments, called axes. Using multivariate techniques, these axes can be classified on the basis of a homogeneity criterion obtaining the strata for a two-stages sampling design

Keywords: Factor Analysis; Geodetic networks; Street security surveys; Space Syntax; Urban axes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09
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