This page inlcudes the code for the work on Trajectories of neighbourhood socioeconomic change in Great Britain: 1971-2011.
Persistent spatial inequalities represent a menace to economic progress, social cohesion and political stability. The UK stands out as one of the most unequal countries in the industrialised world. This paper investigates intra-regional and inter-urban inequalities at the neighbourhood level in Britain during a 40-year period, 1971−2011. Using a novel dataset containing a temporal classification of neighbourhoods, we analysed seven representative trajectories of neighbourhood persistence and change unveiling pathways of socioeconomic progress, decline, persistent affluence and disadvantage. Results highlight the extent of geographic unbalance in the distribution of these trajectories. Socioeconomic progress trajectories have been widespread across British cities. Yet a small handful of cities have concentrated persistent affluent neighbourhoods, and persistent struggling neighbourhoods have prevailed in northern cities.
The code folder contains:
- a jupyter notebook, which has been used to pre-process the data and perform k-means clustering;
- an R script, which has been used to perform sequences analysis;
- an Rmarkdown file with the analysis appeared in the supplementary material.
Patias, N., Rowe, F., and Cavazzi, S. (2020). A scalable analytical framework for spatio-temporal analysis of neighborhood change: A sequence analysis approach. Geospatial Technologies for Local and Regional Development, pages 223–241 Access here
Patias, N., Rowe, F. & Arribas-Bel, D. (2021) Trajectories of neighbourhood inequality in Britain: Unpacking inter-regional socioeconomic imbalances, 1971−2011. The Geographical Journal, 00, 1– 16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12420
Rowe, F., Patias, N., and Arribas-Bel, D. (2020). Policy brief: Neighbourhood change and trajectories of inequality in britain, 1971-2011 Access here