IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rsrsxx/v2y2015i1p458-461.html

The spoken postcodes

Author

Listed:
  • Daniel Arribas-Bel

Abstract

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Daniel Arribas-Bel, 2015. "The spoken postcodes," Regional Studies, Regional Science, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2(1), pages 458-461, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:458-461
    DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1067151
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/21681376.2015.1067151
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/21681376.2015.1067151?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rsrsxx:v:2:y:2015:i:1:p:458-461. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rsrs .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.