The study of the relationship between the provision of local public services and residential
segregation is critical when it might be the social manifestation of spatial income inequality …

Urban deprivation is an epistemic tool to study the geographic concentration of deprivation
in different neighborhoods of a city. Studies have long associated with neighborhood …

Deprivation of socio-economic well-being is one of the major reasons behind the occurrence
of regional disparity in India. The present study has attempted to present and compare the …

Mobility is a multifaceted concept with social, economic and political implications. This article
reflects on the role of mobility and its relation to precarity in the emergence of protests in …

Water poverty, defined as insufficient water of adequate quality to cover basic needs, is an
issue that may manifest itself in multiple ways. Extreme seasonal variation in water …

This study aimed to investigate the association between the characteristics of the
environment related to physical activity and income in areas around schools in Curitiba …

Background Accumulated evidence indicates that neighborhood environments affect
children's health behaviors. However, measuring neighborhood environments remains …

Rapid economic growth in China has brought about a significant challenge: the widening
gap in regional development. Addressing this disparity is crucial for ensuring sustainable …

Urban planners and ecologists have long debated the relationship between the structure of
urban landscapes and social activities. There have, however, been very few discussions as …

We introduce a multidimensional, neural network approach to reveal and measure urban
segregation phenomena, based on the self-organizing map algorithm (SOM). The …