The spoken postcodes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7366734 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Arribas-Bel (0000-0002-6274-1619, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 458-461 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regional Studies Regional Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2168-1376 • E-ISSN: 2168-1376 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21681376.2015.1067151 |
| OpenAlex | W1938796263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The current Oxford English Dictionary defines a neighbourhood as ‘[a] district or portion of a town, city, or country, esp. considered in reference to the character or circumstances of its inhabitants’. However, a large part of quantitative urban analysis relies on administrative boundaries, such as postcodes, as an approximation of true neighbourhoods. This regional graphic explores the possibility of redefining internal boundaries of a city through the combination of new sources of data, statistics and computation. Using the language of a sample of georeferenced tweets in the Dutch city of Amsterdam, in combination with a regionalization algorithm that groups similar continuous areas, the official postcodes are redrawn into those based on their spoken characteristics. The result is a very different urban landscape that is likely to encapsulate better substantive differences between parts of the city
Character (mathematics · Geography · Georeference · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Regional science · Sample (material · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |