A scoping study of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) analysis of house price estimation: with applications to impacts of crime, ethnic/religious segregation and landlord portfolio optimisation

Dr Ellie Bates, University of Edinburgh and Professor Gwilym Pryce, University of Sheffield, Joe Frey, Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Dr John Boyle, Rettie and Co. This project explored new inter-disciplinary uses of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) in criminology, sociology, housing economics and real estate finance, developed in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Rettie and Co. Ltd.

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Remaking urban segregation: processes of income sorting and neighbourhood change

Why examine how segregation changes? Spatial segregation – the division of cities into richer and poorer neighbourhoods, for example – is a key feature of urban areas. Many studies look at how much segregation there is and at how this changes over time but few examine the processes which underpin these changes. In general, people choose to live in neighbourhoods

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Segregation literature review

In this project we were aiming to understand how segregation is defined and measured. In particular, we were interested in the dimensions of segregation that different measures are trying to capture, and the pros and cons of different measurement approaches. The review has a critical element to it in that we sought to ascertain whether a segregation index is measuring

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Quantifying uncertainty in segregation measurement

In the vast literature on segregation measurement, only a handful of papers attempt to address the issue of inference – computing confidence intervals for example for the index of dissimilarity and related measures. Quantifying uncertainty is important if we are to address basic questions about whether there have been genuine changes in segregation over time or between cities. For example,

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Modelling social boundaries and the interconnectedness of place

This project, carried out by Dr Nema Dean and Dr Jonathan Minton, aimed to move beyond simple use of social mix as an indicator of residential segregation. An area can have a high degree of social mix but a low level of social integration and two areas can be very different and yet have a shallow/blurred boundary, while other contrasting

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Urban Segregation and Inequality outputs

Researchers from the USI programme of research have produced a diverse range of outputs, including data maps, briefings and 3D models. AQMeN briefing papers to date are listed here: Poverty in suburbia: has Glasgow gone the way of American cities? – November 2014 Religious segregation in Belfast: detecting real change in patterns of population movement – October 2015 Impact Case

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