Spatial Measurement of Residential Segregation
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چکیده
Segregation measures are useful tools for the analysis of patterns, causes and effects of residential segregation. However, most of empirical segregation studies have employed nonspatial and global measures. In other words, the measures so far applied are unable to consider the spatial arrangement of population and to show how much each areal unit contributes to the segregation degree of the whole city. This paper presents an alternative to overcome the mentioned shortcomings. Specifically, we extended existing segregation indices to enable the use of spatial information in their formulations, and we decomposed the extended indices to generate new local measures of segregation. Finally, the proposed measures were evaluated using an artificial dataset as well as a case study of residential segregation in São José dos Campos (SP, Brazil).
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