Spatially Integrated Social Science (Spatial Information Systems)

✍ Scribed by Michael F. Goodchild, Donald G. Janelle

Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 481
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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 covers outstanding 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 and methodologies useful to geography, anthropology, history, political science, economics, criminology, sociology, and statistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword......Page 6
Contents......Page 12
Contributors......Page 16
Introduction......Page 26
1 Thinking Spatially in the Social Sciences......Page 28
Part I: Spatial Analysis at Individual and Household Levels......Page 44
2 Inferring the Behavior of Households from Remotely Sensed Changes in Land Cover: Current Methods and Future Directions......Page 48
3 Geovisualization of Human Activity Patterns Using 3D GIS: A Time-Geographic Approach......Page 73
4 Agent-Based Modeling: From Individual Residential Choice to Urban Residential Dynamics......Page 92
5 Too Much of the Wrong Kind of Data: Implications for the Practice of Micro-Scale Spatial Modeling......Page 120
Part II: Neighborhood-Level Analysis......Page 134
6 Identifying Ethnic Neighborhoods with Census Data: Group Concentration and Spatial Clustering......Page 138
7 Spatial Analyses of Homicide with Areal Data......Page 152
8 Spatial (Dis)Advantage and Homicide in Chicago Neighborhoods......Page 170
9 Measuring Spatial Diffusion of Shots Fired Activity across City Neighborhoods......Page 196
10 The Spatial Structure of Urban Political Discussion Networks......Page 230
Part III: Region-Level Analysis......Page 244
11 Mapping Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Developing Countries: Spatial Patterns of São Paulo in the 1990s......Page 248
12 Business Location and Spatial Externalities: Tying Concepts to Measures......Page 264
13 Updating Spatial Perspectives and Analytical Frameworks in Urban Research......Page 288
14 Spatial Analysis of Regional Income Inequality......Page 305
15 Shaping Policy Decisions with Spatial Analysis......Page 325
16 Geographical Approaches for Reconstructing Past Human Behavior from Prehistoric Roadways......Page 348
Part IV: Multi-Scale Spatial Perspectives......Page 370
17 Time, Space, and Archaeological Landscapes: Establishing Connections in the First Millennium BC......Page 374
18 Spatial Perspectives in Public Health......Page 391
19 The Role of Spatial Analysis in Demographic Research......Page 406
20 Spatial Interaction Models of International Telecommunication Flows......Page 425
21 Planning Scenario Visualization and Assessment: A Cellular Automata Based Integrated Spatial Decision Support System......Page 445
Epilogue: Spatial Analysis in Retrospect and Prospect......Page 468
B......Page 472
C......Page 473
F......Page 474
I......Page 475
M......Page 476
P......Page 477
R......Page 478
S......Page 479
V......Page 480
Z......Page 481

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