An exploration of spatial dispersion, pattern, and association of socio-economic functional units in an urban system

Author(s)
Myint, S. W.
Publication language
English
Pages
21pp
Date published
01 Jul 2008
Publisher
Applied Geography
Type
Articles
Keywords
Research methodology, Urban

Hypotheses based on a set of socio-economic, cultural, and political functional units are examined. The geographic techniques employed in the study include spatial mean, standard distance, standard deviational ellipse, nearest neighbor analysis, and spatial analysis on a network: cross K function and network cross K function. The study not only explores the spatial pattern, distribution, and association of key socio-economic, cultural, and political units which could reveal internal structures and activities of an urban system, but also demonstrates a number of operational procedures that permit applications of traditional and advanced spatial analysis approaches in the study of real urban systems.