New technologies and multilevel data sets that include geographic identifiers have
heightened sociologists' interest in spatial analysis. I review several of the key concepts …

For decades, the spatial approach to network analysis has principally focused on planar and
technical networks from a classic graph theory perspective. Reference to models and …

This paper studies university students' commute and housing behaviors using samples from
Los Angeles, a place notorious for car dependence and dominance. It finds that being …

The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern
cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can …

In the age of B ig D ata, the widespread use of location‐awareness technologies has made it
possible to collect spatio‐temporal interaction data for analyzing flow patterns in both …

Concerns about neighborhood erosion and conflict in ethnically diverse settings occupy
scholars, policy makers, and pundits alike; but the empirical evidence is inconclusive. This …

Our study investigates social mechanisms that facilitate the reproduction of an
entrepreneurially oriented community structure. We combine qualitative and quantitative …

Within any type of system, the actors in the system inevitably compete over resources. With
competition comes the possibility of conflict. To minimize such effects, actors often will …

Northeast China is generally experiencing a shrinkage phenomenon similar to that in other
old industrial regions worldwide. Large-scale growth-oriented regeneration programs by the …

Research on neighborhoods and crime is on a remarkable growth trajectory. In this article,
we survey important recent developments in the scholarship on neighborhood effects and …