SSCI 165Lgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Zip Code, Ath, Spatial Analysis
Document Summary
Ci le(cid:272)ture 26 o(cid:272)ial a(cid:374)d patial a(cid:374)alysis of e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal (cid:862)bads(cid:863) Theories in mal-distribution: bias in political participation. Less participation of lower ses (socioeconomic status) groups (voting, meeting litigation) (cid:862)ethnic churn(cid:863) difficulty in forming coalitions in multi-ethnic or transitional neighborhoods: economic or class-based theories. Poor people reside on less expensive land. Workers in hazardous industrial occupations live close to such facilities: stigma and place. Areas w/lulus are thought to be appropriate for other lulus (locally unwanted land use) Difficulties in spatial measurement: point vs. polygonal data. E. g. air emissions subject to wind patterns (plume: modifiable areal unit problem (maup) Modifiable areal unit problem (maup: aggregation units used are arbitrary w/respect to the phenomena being analyzed. E. g using zip code vs. county vs. block group level: scale effect spatial data analysis at different scales may produce different results, zonal effect regrouping zones at a given scale may produce different results.
