This article reviews almost four decades of contributions on the subject of supervised
regionalization methods. These methods aggregate a set of areas into a predefined number …

Geography and Geographers continues to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date
overview of human geography available. It provides a survey of the major debates, key …

In this paper, we introduce a new spatially constrained clustering problem called the max‐p‐
regions problem. It involves the clustering of a set of geographic areas into the maximum …

A measure of shape compactness is a numerical quantity representing the degree to which
a shape is compact. Ways to provide an accurate measure have been given great attention …

There has been considerable discussion in health geography and related areas of
neighbourhood effects on health: the idea that people's health in one geographical area …

The paper describes the creation of the Office for National Statistics 2001 output area
classification, which was created in collaboration with the authors. The classification places …

This paper provides a rapid response analysis of the changing geographies of ethnic
diversity and segregation in England and Wales using Census data covering the last 30 …

Neighbourhood effects on health are partly determined by the way the neighbourhoods are
defined (the modifiable areal unit problem), but few studies of place effects have …

This paper presents a spatial analysis of multiple deprivation in South Africa and
demonstrates that the most deprived areas in the country are located in the rural former …

The American Community Survey (ACS) is the largest survey of US households and is the
principal source for neighborhood scale information about the US population and economy …