This article introduces a new approach to measuring neighborhood change. Instead of the traditional method of identifying “neighborhoods” a priori and then studying how resident attributes change over time, this approach looks at the neighborhood more intrinsically as a unit that has both a...

Australia shapes a unique urban system. This paper examines the Australian urban system using data for urban centers and localities in 1996 and 2001. A summary and a basic descriptive analysis of the database are provided, followed by an examination of whether the system follows Zipf’s and...

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The present paper considers urban sprawl in Europe from a multi- dimensional and exploratory point of view. Several literatures on the topic (mainly from urban economics, but also from other fields such as urban planning or regional science) are reviewed to extract the main dimensions of the...

In this paper we consider urban spatial structure in US cities using a multidimensional approach. We select six key variables (commuting costs, density, employment dispersion and concentration, land-use mix, polycentricity, and size) from the urban literature and define measures to quantify...

In this note, we compare three test statistics that have been suggested to assess the presence of spatial error autocorrelation in probit models. We highlight the differences between the tests proposed by Pinkse and Slade (J Econom 85(1):125–254, <CitationRef CitationID="CR13">1998</CitationRef>), Pinkse (Asymptotics of the Moran test...</citationref>

Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes – are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...

This resource contains the materials and structure suggested to run a mini course of approximately 14 hours on spatial data, analysis and regression. The course is structured along four lectures and four labs that require the use of computers.