The City of Lubbock is Running Away. Integration and Isolation Patterns in the Wandering City
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https://doi.org/10.5890/JVTSD.2019.06.002Abstract
We propose computationally feasible statistical algorithms for the automated assessment of isolation and integration of urban locations and neighborhoods by using maps acquired from the OpenStreeMap service. Integration and isolation de ned by observing the properties of scale-dependent random walks on city street maps are not always opposites. While isolation worsens economic and social mo- bility prospects in sprawling metropolitan areas, some secluded places homing the wealthiest can be characterized as being in integrated isolation in the city.References
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