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Open Geodemographics: Classification of Small Areas, Ireland 2016
Geodemographics is a tool to summarize the characteristics of spatial units based on socio-economic data. It has been used over several decades to...
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Analysing Socio-Economic Change Using a Time Comparable Geodemographic Classification: England and Wales, 1991–2011
Geodemographic classifications are used to understand social phenomena. Within the private sector, for business planning accounting for underlying...
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Ageing in Place Classification: Creating a geodemographic classification for the ageing population in England
Population ageing is one of the most significant demographic changes underway in many countries. Far from being a homogenous group, older people and...
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Develo** a National Geodemographic Classification of Workplace Zones
Geodemographics conventionally refers to the classification of geographical areas based on the socioeconomic characteristics of their residents. In...
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Creating a Composite Index to Target Recruitment of UK Students from Areas of Low Participation in Higher Education
This research presents a framework through which a new Higher Education Access and Deprivation (HEAD) composite index was created to assist UK...
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How Digital Geographies Render Value: Geofences, the Blockchain, and the Possibilities of Slow Alternatives
This chapter proceeds in two parts. First, it situates the way that digital geographies render value by creating new markets for the creation,...
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Geodemographic insights on the COVID-19 pandemic in the State of Wisconsin and the role of risky facilities
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to impact the United States. While age and...
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Defining Urban Science
This introductory chapter provides a brief overview of the theories and models that constitute what has come to be called urban science. Explaining...
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Overall Introduction
Urban informatics is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding, managing, and designing the city using systematic theories and methods based on...
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Understanding the Current Geographic Disposition of the Jewish Population of England and Wales: Growth and Contraction
The release in March/April 2023 of England and Wales 2021 Census complete data on “usual residents” by the Office for National Statistics provides an...
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It’s the Weather: Quantifying the Impact of Weather on Retail Sales
The weather is considered as an influential factor on consumer purchasing behaviours and plays a significant role in many aspects of retail sector...
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Quantitative Environmental Equity Analysis of Perceived Accessibility to Urban Parks in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Environmental equity (EE) has become internationally recognized as an important research field, but in Japan limited quantitative research is...
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Develo** an Individual-level Geodemographic Classification
Geodemographics is a spatially explicit classification of socio-economic data, which can be used to describe and analyse individuals by where they...
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‘I Am Going to Uni!’ Working-Class Academic Success, Opportunity and Conflict
More young people than ever now remain in post-16 education and progress onto higher education. However, despite these changes, white working-class...
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An Open Source Geodemographic Classification of Small Areas in the Republic of Ireland
Geodemographic classifications have progressed from manual classifications of areas through to complex, highly marketable products used in both the...
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Between Flows and Places: Using Geodemographics to Explore EU Migration Across Neighbourhoods in Britain
During the past decade, the growing significance of EU migrants in Britain has attracted considerable media and policy attention. While the rhetoric...
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21 Urban and Spatial Demography
The spectacular growth of urban areas and the rise of large scale urban systems are prominent features of the contemporary spatial distribution of...
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Setting the Scene
In this chapter, we explain how LG came to have the social mix that it does. This requires that we document a number of policies, processes and...
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Improving the Robustness and Accuracy of Crime Prediction with the Self-Exciting Point Process Through Isotropic Triggering
The self-exciting point process (SEPP) is a model of the spread of crime in space and time, incorporating background and triggering processes. It...
