【摘要】Segregated areas may occur around an attractive park or a waste incinerator, but themagnitude and group membership of the people in closest proximity will likely be di?erent. Wetherefore introduce a local segregation measure that can be applied to any location within ametropolitan area, and that can identify the group that is relatively more concentrated aroundthat reference location. We further introduce an inference approach to identify the statisticalsigni?cance of a particular segregation value. In an exploratory setting the index can be used togenerate a map of hot spots, and seed the question: “why is this group signi?cantly concentratedaround that location?”

【关键词】Local segregation;spatial segregation;centralization

【文献来源】David C. Folch;Sergio J. Rey .Papers in Regional Studies.2016（3）