The time geography of segregation during working hours.

ABSTRACT: While segregation is usually evaluated at the residential level, the recent influx of large streams of data describing urbanites' movement across the city allows to generate detailed descriptions of spatio-temporal segregation patterns across the activity space of individuals. For instance, segregation across the activity space is usually thought to be lower compared with residential segregation given the importance of social complementarity, among other factors, shaping the economies of cities. However, these new dynamic approaches to segregation convey important methodological challenges. This paper proposes a methodological framework to investigate segregation during working hours. Our approach combines three well-known mathematical tools: community detection algorithms, segregation met

SUBMITTER: Dannemann T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6227938 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature