On Segregation

Segregation Landscape: A New View on the Schelling Segregation Space

Thomas C. Schelling showed that global aggregation may occur, even if it does not correspond to agent preferences; thus, to some extent his model supported the view that segregation is unavoidable, whatever the tolerance is. The segregation landscape approach proposed in this paper is seriously weakening this hypothesis; here, we radically change the perspective and propose using the landscape ...

Spatial Segregation in Demography: A Short Review

  Abstract. Spatial has always been an inherent component of demography, and demographic processes are inherently spatiotemporal. Recognizing the importance of spatial in general and spatial segregation in particular in demographic analysis has created new positions in demography and its conceptual and analytical frameworks. The notion of spatial segregation refers to the distribution of social...

Segregation Research on Urban China

Stochastic phase segregation on surfaces

Phase separation and coarsening is a phenomenon commonly seen in binary physical and chemical systems that occur in nature. Often, thermal fluctuations, modelled as stochastic noise, are present in the system and the phase segregation process occurs on a surface. In this work, the segregation process is modelled via the Cahn-Hilliard-Cook model, which is a fourth-order parabolic stochastic syst...

Ten experiments on vowel segregation

This report describes ten experiments on concurrent vowel segregation and identification. Experiments are numbered from 1 to 10. Experiment 1 was designed to be sensitive to a variety of hypothetical mechanisms by which frequency modulation (FM) might affect identification. The results were mostly negative, in the sense that no effect was found that could not be attributed to other factors. The...