This article introduces a new approach to measuring neighborhood change. Instead of the traditional method of identifying “neighborhoods” a priori and then studying how resident attributes change over time, this approach looks at the neighborhood more intrinsically as a unit that has both a...

This article examines the publication patterns in five core regional science journals during the 1990s. Attention is paid to the thematic distribution of articles for each journal and across journals. The journals are also compared with respect to citation counts, areas of concentration, and...

PySAL is an open source library for spatial analysis written in the object-oriented language Python. It is built upon shared functionality in two exploratory spatial data analysis packages--GeoDA and STARS--and is intended to leverage the shared development of these components. This paper...