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Final Examination G.E 7

The document analyzes land use patterns between 1995 and 2003 using spatial metrics like total area and shape indexes, and discusses the evolution of social status related to economic factors and living conditions and the increasing socio-spatial differentiation of urban space, as well as how economic geography has drawn from evolutionary economics to understand regional growth and change.

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Final Examination G.E 7

The document analyzes land use patterns between 1995 and 2003 using spatial metrics like total area and shape indexes, and discusses the evolution of social status related to economic factors and living conditions and the increasing socio-spatial differentiation of urban space, as well as how economic geography has drawn from evolutionary economics to understand regional growth and change.

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The evolution of land use patterns between 1995 and 2003 was analyzed using spatial metrics such as

total area, largest patch index (percent total area occupied by the largest patch of a given land use),
mean area (mean area of the patches of a land use), area weighted shape index (perimeter-area ratio of
the patches of a land use), area weighted fractal index (which accounts for the complexity of land use
patches), and contagion index (which measures the degree of diversity of a landscape). These metrics
have been chosen because they have been used in other studies to analyze the dispersion and
complexity of urban patterns.

The evolution of social status It is formed by social differentiation related to economic income, social
status, lifestyle,
consumption patterns and living conditions, and embodies the differentiation and combination of
social groups in the geographical space. It has been resurgent in recent years, and part of this
resurgence is due to the development of highly advanced computational techniques, which are being
applied to the analysis of massive and complex data. A further reason is the emergence of polarization
and the fragmentation of labor, as well as an increasing acceptance of urban forms diversity,
which signify the increasing socio-spatial differentiation of urban space.

And the evolution of Economic geography has, over the past decade or so, drawn upon ideas from
evolutionary economics in trying to understand processes of regional growth and change. Recently,
some researchers have sought to delimit and develop an "evolutionary economic geography" (EEG),
aiming to create a more systematic theoretical framework for research.

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