Empirical Results of Numerical Taxonomy of Brisbane Census Data and Some Urban Planning Perspectives

The paper reports the empirical results of the application of numerical taxonomy or hierarchiical grouping to Brisbane Census data (1971). Previous studies have been based on simple north-south models and in this study we advance the frontier by embarking on a concentric-zones growth model. The taxa or groups generated by aggregating socio-economic variables from census yield many useful insights into the multi-dimensional problems of urban development and provide general guides for the planning of welfare amenities for metropolitan Brisbane