Spatial dynamics of cultural diversity in the Netherlands

Arribas-Bel, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0002-6274-1619 and Bakens, Jessie (2018) Spatial dynamics of cultural diversity in the Netherlands. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING B-URBAN ANALYTICS AND CITY SCIENCE, 45 (6). pp. 1142-1156.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808318783748

Abstract

<jats:p> In this paper, we analyse the spatial dimension of changing ethnic diversity at the neighbourhood level. Drawing from recent work on income convergence, we characterise the evolution of population diversity in the Netherlands over space. Our analysis is structured over three dimensions, which allow us to find clear spatial patterns in how cultural diversity changes at the neighbourhood level. Globally, we use directional statistics to visualise techniques of exploratory data analysis, finding a clear trend towards ‘spatially integrated change’: a situation where the trajectory of ethnic change in a neighbourhood is closely related to that in adjacent neighbourhoods. When we zoom into the local level, a visualisation of recent measures of local concordance allows us to document a high degree of spatial heterogeneity in how the overall change is distributed over space. Finally, to further explore the nature and characteristics of neighbourhoods that experience the largest amount of change, we develop a spatial, multilevel model. Our results show that the largest cities, as well as those at the boundaries with Belgium and Germany, with the most diverse neighbourhoods, have large clusters of stable neighbourhood diversity over time, while concentrations of high dynamic areas are nearby these largest cities. The analysis shows that neighbourhood diversity spatially ‘spills over’, gradually expanding outside traditionally diverse areas. </jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Spatial dynamics, neighbourhood analysis, cultural diversity
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2019 09:09
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 00:55
DOI:	10.1177/2399808318783748
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3035919