Geosilhouettes: Geographical measures of cluster fit

Levi J Wolf, Elijah Knaap and Sergio Rey
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Levi J Wolf: School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK

Environment and Planning B, 2021, vol. 48, issue 3, 521-539

Abstract: Regionalization, under various guises and descriptions, is a longstanding and pervasive interest of urban studies. With an increasingly large number of studies on urban place detection in language, behavior, pricing, and demography, recent critiques of longstanding regional science perspectives on place detection have focused on the arbitrariness and non-geographical nature of measures of best fit. In this paper, we develop new explicitly geographical measures of cluster fit. These hybrid spatial–social measures, called geosilhouettes , are demonstrated to capture the “core†of geographical clusters in racial data on census blocks in Brooklyn neighborhoods. These new geosilhouettes are also useful in a variety of boundary analysis and outlier detection problems. In this paper, the thinking behind geosilhouettes is presented, their mathematical form is defined, they are demonstrated, and new directions of research are discussed.

Keywords: Data science; urban sociology; segregation; clustering; unsupervised learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/2399808319875752

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