The emergence of novelty, especially of new categories of people and organizations, is undertheorized in the social sciences. Some social worlds are more hospitable to novel introductions or exogenous perturbations than others. Explaining this relative "poisedness" is essential to understanding...

This research applies Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) to investigate how different types of urban open space and their spatial configurations are valued by residential property owners. To reflect residential property owners' perception of neighborhood and spatially heterogeneous...

The emergence of novelty, especially of new categories of people and organizations, is undertheorized in the social sciences. Some social worlds are more hospitable to novel introductions or exogenous perturbations than others. Explaining this relative "poisedness" is essential to understanding...