Beyond Activity Space
Detecting Communities in Ecological Networks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3775640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wenna Xi (0000-0002-5427-5689, The Ohio State University), C A Calder (0000-0002-4459-1418, The Ohio State University), C R Browning (0000-0001-7807-3849, The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1787-1806 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24694452.2020.1715779 |
| PMID | 33244506 |
| OpenAlex | W3011437477 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 55 |
Emerging research suggests that the extent to which activity spaces - the collection of an individual's routine activity locations - overlap provides important information about the functioning of a city and its neighborhoods. To study patterns of overlapping activity spaces, we draw on the notion of an ecological network, a type of two-mode network with the two modes being individuals and the geographic locations where individuals perform routine activities. We describe a method for detecting "ecological communities" within these networks based on shared activity locations among individuals. Specifically, we identify latent activity pattern profiles, which, for each community, summarize its members' probability distribution of going to each location, and community assignment vectors, which, for each individual, summarize his/her probability distribution of belonging to each community. Using data from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context (AHDC) Study, we employ latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to identify activity pattern profiles and communities. We then explore differences across neighborhoods in the strength, and within-neighborhood consistency of community assignment. We hypothesize that these aspects of the neighborhood structure of ecological community membership capture meaningful dimensions of neighborhood functioning likely to co-vary with economic and racial composition. We discuss the implications of a focus on ecological communities for the conduct of "neighborhood effects" research more broadly
Biology · Community structure · Context (archaeology · Data science · Distribution (mathematics · Geography · Latent Dirichlet allocation · Topic model · Computer Science · Health disparities and outcomes · Mathematics · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology
Human Mobility and Crime
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces
Analysis of Spatial Networks From Bipartite Projections Using the R Backbone Package
Public contact and neighborhood collective efficacy in Beijing, China
Quantifying local mobility and unraveling nonlinear mechanisms in the 15-minute city
Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies
Beyond Distance Decay
Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and the Span of Adolescent Exposures
Characterizing People's Daily Activity Patterns in the Urban Environment
The Where, When, and How of Diversity
Geographic Isolation, Compelled Mobility, and Everyday Exposure to Neighborhood Racial Composition among Urban Youth
Spatial Behavior
When Work Disappears
Great American City
Social Network Analysis
Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks
Measuring segregation
Bilinear Mixed-Effects Models for Dyadic Data
Neighborhood characteristics associated with the location of food stores and food service places
Topicmodels
A suite of methods for representing activity space in a healthcare accessibility study
Inferring friendship network structure by using mobile phone data
The Truly Disadvantaged
Spatial Polygamy and Contextual Exposures (SPACEs)
On the measurement of inequality
Identifying positions from affiliation networks
Neighborhood isolation in Chicago
Activity space environment and dietary and physical activity behaviors
Conceptualization and measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology
The combined effects of activity space and neighbourhood of residence on participation in preventive health-care activities
Race, Scale, and the Concentration of Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1980 to 1990
Impact of the Family Health Program on Infant Mortality in Brazilian Municipalities
Neighbourhood effects and beyond
On the Interpretation and Disaggregation of Gini Coefficients
No Community Is an Island
Understanding Racial Differences in Exposure to Violent Areas
Beyond Social Capital
From place-based to people-based exposure measures
The role of daily mobility in mental health inequalities
When Work Disappears
Neighborhood Institutions as Resource Brokers
The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods
The Paradox of Social Organization
Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization
Neighborhood Mechanisms and the Spatial Dynamics of Birth Weight
The design of a multilevel survey of children, families, and communities
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |