Measuring urban attitudes embedded in microblogging data: shrinking versus growing cities.
This paper explores the use of powerful new software tools and social media data that can be used to study the attitudes of people in urban places. In particular, it uses propensity scoring to develop matched pairs of mid-sized US cities in the North East and Midwest, where the most significant diff...
| Publicado en: | TPR: Town Planning Review Vol. 88; no. 4; pp. 465 - 491 |
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