The paper is based on the idea that the organization of services by local authorities should take into account both the demographic features of the resident population and the spatial dimension of the territory involved. As regards the former, it seeks to identify homogeneous and spatially...

Using addresses from the 2008 Boston Youth Survey Geospatial Dataset, a school-based sample of public high school students with residential address information who come from neighborhoods across Boston, MA (n=1292), we evaluated potential spatial inequalities in neighborhood walkability via Walk...

Spatio-demographic data sets are increasingly available worldwide, permitting ever more realistic modeling and analysis of social processes ranging from mobility to disease transmission. The information provided by these data sets is typically aggregated by areal unit, for reasons of both...