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Measuring Two Decades of Urban Spatial Structure: The Evolution of Agglomeration Economies in American Metros
In this paper we examine the evolution of urban spatial structure in U.S. metropolitan areas over nearly two decades. Using annual …
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Measuring Two Decades of Urban Spatial Structure: The Evolution of Agglomeration Economies in American Metros
Urban Sprawl and Racial Inequality in Intergenerational Mobility
Abstract Persistent racial inequality in socioeconomic status within urban areas has been a significant concern in both the …
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Urban Sprawl and Racial Inequality in Intergenerational Mobility
Intersectional Urban Dynamics: A Joint Markov Chains Approach
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Intersectional Urban Dynamics: A Joint Markov Chains Approach
Segregated by Design? Street Network Topological Structure and the Measurement of Urban Segregation
Racial residential segregation is a longstanding topic of focus across the disciplines of urban social science. Classically, …
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Segregated by Design? Street Network Topological Structure and the Measurement of Urban Segregation
American Community Survey (ACS) Data Uncertainty and the Analysis of Segregation Dynamics
Abstract American Community Survey (ACS) data have become the workhorse for the empirical analysis of segregation in the …
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The State of the World's Arable Land
For millennia, agriculture has been shaping landscapes on Earth. Technological change has increased agricultural productivity …
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The State of the World's Arable Land
Statistical Inference for Spatial Regionalization
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Species Distribution Modelling Supports the Study of Past, Present and Future Biogeographies
Abstract Species distribution modelling (SDM), also called environmental or ecological niche modelling, has …
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Species Distribution Modelling Supports the Study of Past, Present and Future Biogeographies
Spatial Inequality and Place Mobility in Mexico: 2000– 2015
In this paper we examine the relationship between spatial inequality, place mobility, and spatial polarization in Mexico. We use data …
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Spatial Inequality and Place Mobility in Mexico: 2000– 2015
Rarity, Geography, and Plant Exposure to Global Change in the California Floristic Province
Aim: Rarity and geographic aspects of species distributions mediate their vulnerabil-ity to global change. We explore the relationships …
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Rarity, Geography, and Plant Exposure to Global Change in the California Floristic Province
The Spatial Analysis of Gentrification: Formalizing Geography in Models of a Multidimensional Urban Process
This chapter examines predominant and emerging approaches for conducting spatial analyses of gentrification; It begins with a brief …
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The Legacy of Redlining: A Spatial Dynamics Perspective
This paper investigates the long-term impacts of the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) mortgage risk assessment maps …
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The Legacy of Redlining: A Spatial Dynamics Perspective
Spopt: A Python Package for Solving Spatial Optimization Problems in PySAL
Feng et al., (2022). spopt: a python package for solving spatial optimization problems in PySAL. Journal of Open Source Software, …
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Smart Growth's Misbegotten Legacy: Gentrification
From the 1960s through the 1990s empirical literature established that the process of gentrification, the in-movement of higher-class …
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Reducing Racial Segregation of Public School Districts
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Open Source Software for Spatial Data Science
Much progress has been made in the development of software tools for spatial analysis since the special issue of Geographical Analysis …
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Flexsdm: An r Package for Supporting a Comprehensive and Flexible Species Distribution Modelling Workflow
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ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species' Niches and Distributions
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Big Code
Big data, the new oil of the modern data science era, has attracted much attention in the GIScience community. However, we have ignored …
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An Expanded Framework for Wildland– Urban Interfaces and Their Management
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A Function-Based Typology for Earth's Ecosystems
As the United Nations develops a post-2020 global biodiversity framework for the Convention on Biological Diversity, attention is …
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The PySAL Ecosystem: Philosophy and Implementation
PySAL is a library for geocomputation and spatial data science. Written in Python, the library has a long history of supporting novel …
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The Max-p-Compact-Regions Problem
The max-p-compact-regions problem involves the aggregation of a set of small areas into an unknown maximum number (p) of compact, …
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Spaghetti: Spatial Network Analysis in PySAL
Gaboardi et al., (2021). spaghetti: spatial network analysis in PySAL. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(62), 2826, …
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Smoothed Estimators for Markov Chains with Sparse Spatial Observations
Empirical applications of the Markov chain model and its spatial extensions suffer from issues induced by the sparse transition …
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Potential Ecological Impacts of Climate Intervention by Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth
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Neighborhood Effects and Neighborhood Dynamics
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Microplastic Pollution on Island Beaches, Oahu, Hawaii
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History as Grounds for Interdisciplinarity: Promoting Sustainable Woodlands via an Integrative Ecological and Socio-Cultural Perspective
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Global Tropical Dry Forest Extent and Cover: A Comparative Study of Bioclimatic Definitions Using Two Climatic Data Sets
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Geographical Python Teaching Resources: Geopyter
geopyter, an acronym of Geographical Python Teaching Resources, provides a hub for the distribution of best practice' in computational …
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Comparing Sample Bias Correction Methods for Species Distribution Modeling Using Virtual Species
Abstract A key assumption in species distribution modeling (SDM) with presence-background (PB) methods is that sampling of occurrence …
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Comparative Spatial Segregation Analytics
Comparative segregation analysis holds the potential to provide rich insights into urban socio-spatial dynamics. However, comparisons …
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Changes in the Economic Status of Neighbourhoods in US Metropolitan Areas from 1980 to 2010: Stability, Growth and Polarisation
In this paper we move away from a static view of neighbourhood inequality and investigate the dynamics of neighbourhood economic …
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Changes in the Economic Status of Neighbourhoods in US Metropolitan Areas from 1980 to 2010: Stability, Growth and Polarisation
Building Educational Capacity for Inclusive Geocomputation: A Research-Practice Partnership in Southern California
To build educational capacity for the rapidly evolving science and profession of geocomputation, the American Association of …
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A Probabilistic Approach to Address Data Uncertainty in Regionalization
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A Framework Linking Biogeography and Species Traits to Plant Species Vulnerability under Global Change in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems
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The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: Temporal and Spatial Variation in an Extraordinary Extinct Ecosystem of the Pleistocene of the Cape Floristic Region
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The Global Abundance of Tree Palms
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The Foraging Potential of the Holocene Cape South Coast of South Africa without the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain
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Sensitivity of Sequence Methods in the Study of Neighborhood Change in the United States
There is a recent surge in research focused on urban transformations in the United States via empirical analysis of neighborhood …
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Pysal/Tobler
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Mandown: Scholarly Manuscripts in Markdown
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Efficient Regionalization for Spatially Explicit Neighborhood Delineation
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Describing a Drowned Pleistocene Ecosystem: Last Glacial Maximum Vegetation Reconstruction of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain
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A Visual Analytics System for Space–Time Dynamics of Regional Income Distributions Utilizing Animated Flow Maps and Rank– Based Markov Chains
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A Standard Protocol for Reporting Species Distribution Models
Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models across ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of …
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A Fiery Past: A Comparison of Glacial and Contemporary Fire Regimes on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain, Cape Floristic Region
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Pysal/Segregation: Segregation Analysis, Inference, and Decomposition
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Pysal/Giddy: Giddy 2.2.1
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Mi Casa No Es Su Casa: The Fight for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in an Inner-Ring Suburb
Transit-oriented development (TOD) often raises land values and can promote gentrification and the displacement in low-income …
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Metropolitan Planning in a Vacuum: Lessons on Regional Equity Planning from Baltimore's Sustainable Communities Initiative
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How Do Cities Flow in an Emergency? Tracing Human Mobility Patterns during a Natural Disaster with Big Data and Geospatial Data Science
Understanding human movements in the face of natural disasters is critical for disaster evacuation planning, management, and relief. …
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Geosnap: The Geospatial Neighborhood Analysis Package
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Geosilhouettes: Geographical Measures of Cluster Fit
Regionalization, under various guises and descriptions, is a longstanding and pervasive interest of urban studies. With an increasingly …
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CATSLife: A Study of Lifespan Behavioral Development and Cognitive Functioning
The purpose of this update is to provide the most current information about both the Colorado Adoption Project (CAP) and the …
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An Open-Source Framework for Non-Spatial and Spatial Segregation Measures: The PySAL Segregation Module
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Adaptive Choropleth Mapper: An Open-Source Web-Based Tool for Synchronous Exploration of Multiple Variables at Multiple Spatial Extents
Choropleth mapping is an essential visualization technique for exploratory spatial data analysis. Visualizing multiple choropleth maps …
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Socioeconomic Neighborhoods: The Open Source Longitudinal Neighborhood Analysis Package (OSLNAP)
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