Spatially Integrated Social Science

by Michael F. Goodchild; Donald G. Janelle

• ISBN13: 9780195185379
• ISBN10: 0195185374
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-01-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic US

Summary

Spatial analysis assists theoretical understanding and empirical testing in the social sciences, and rapidly expanding applications of geographic information technologies have advanced the spatial data-gathering needed for spatial analysis and model making. This much-needed volume coversoutstanding examples of spatial thinking in the social sciences, with each chapter showing some aspect of how certain social processes can be understood by analyzing their spatial context. The audience for this work is as trans-disciplinary as its authorship because it contains approaches andmethodologies useful to geography, anthropology, history, political science, economics, criminology, sociology, and statistics.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. 2
Thinking Spatially in the Social Sciences	p. 3
References	p. 16
Spatial Analysis at Individual and Household Levels	p. 19
Current Methods and Future Directions	p. 23
References	p. 44
A Time-Geographic Approach	p. 48
References	p. 63
From Individual Residential Choice to Urban Residential Dynamics	p. 67
Notes	p. 90
References	p. 91
Implications for the Practice of Micro-Scale Spatial Modeling	p. 95
References	p. 105
Neighborhood-Level Analysis	p. 109
Group Concentration and Spatial Clustering	p. 113
References	p. 125
Spatial Analyses of Homicide with Areal Data	p. 127
Notes	p. 141
References	p. 142
Spatial (Dis)Advantage and Homicide in Chicago Neighborhoods	p. 145
Acknowledgment	p. 165
Notes	p. 165
References	p. 168
Measuring Spatial Diffusion of Shots Fired Activity across City Neighborhoods	p. 171
Notes	p. 201
References	p. 202
The Spatial Structure of Urban Political Discussion Networks	p. 205
Notes	p. 217
References	p. 218
Region-Level Analysis	p. 219
Spatial Patterns of São Paulo in the 1990s	p. 223
References	p. 237
Tying Concepts to Measures	p. 239
Notes	p. 260
References	p. 261
Updating Spatial Perspectives and Analytical Frameworks in Urban Research	p. 263
Notes	p. 276
References	p. 277
Spatial Analysis of Regional	p. 280
Notes	p. 296
References	p. 297
Shaping Policy Decisions with Spatial Analysis	p. 300
References	p. 319
Geographical Approaches for Reconstructing Past Human Behavior from Prehistoric Roadways	p. 323
References	p. 340
Multi-Scale Spatial Perspectives	p. 345
Establishing Connections in the First Millennium BC	p. 349
References	p. 363
Spatial Perspectives in Public Health	p. 366
References	p. 379
The Role of Spatial Analysis in Demographic Research	p. 381
References	p. 396
Spatial Interaction Models of International Telecommunication Flows	p. 400
References	p. 418
A Cellular Automata Based Integrated Spatial Decision Support System	p. 420
References	p. 440
Epilogue: Spatial Analysis in Retrospect and Prospect	p. 443
References	p. 446
Index	p. 447
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