Activity Spaces and the Measurement of Clustering and Exposure: A Case Study of Linguistic Groups in Montreal

Steven Farber, Antonio Páez and Catherine Morency
Additional contact information
Steven Farber: Department of Geography, The University of Utah, 260 South Central Campus Drive, Room 270, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9155, USA
Antonio Páez: School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Catherine Morency: Département des génies civil, géologique et des mines, École Polytechnique, PO Box 6079, station Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3A7, Canada

Environment and Planning A, 2012, vol. 44, issue 2, 315-332

Abstract: Population segregation measurement is a topic of broad interest in the social sciences. In this paper we draw from recent advances in the spatial analysis literature to derive individualized measures of clustering and exposure. Recent research on accessibility has seen a shift from place-based measures to person-based ones. Similarly, the notion of residential clustering and exposure patterns, while typically related to the distribution of population in zonal systems, can be modified to account for heterogeneous experiences of urban space. In particular, at the individual level, the degree of clustering and exposure is related to personal mobility and the individual experience of space. In this paper we turn to the question of whether individuals belonging to different groups and living in different areas of a city observe differences in their clustering and exposure to population groups over space. The proposed procedure is applied empirically to the case of Montreal to explore how native English speakers of various levels of mobility experience exposure.

Keywords: activity spaces; clustering; exposure; Gi* statistics; relative accessibility deprivation indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/a44203 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:envira:v:44:y:2012:i:2:p:315-332

DOI: 10.1068/a44203

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Environment and Planning A
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().