Newly published articles

“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies

• PORKERTOVÁ, H., OSMAN, R., POSPÍŠILOVÁ, L., DOBOŠ, P., KOPECKÁ, Z. (2024): “Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies. Qualitative Research. [online first]
• This paper explores the challenges involved in conducting interviews with people with visual impairments in geographical research of blind people’s experiences of urban space.

Having a garden or being in the city? The trade-offs and strategies of young middle-class families in Prague

• HORŇÁKOVÁ, M., ŠPAČKOVÁ, P. (2024): Having a garden or being in the city? The trade-offs and strategies of young middle-class families in Prague. Journal of Urban Affairs. [online first]
• Using the concept of life pathways, the study explores the process of decision-making about moving to a post-socialist city and how housing needs and preferences intersect with what is affordable for young middle-class families.

In praise of (spatial) bundles

• ARRIBAS-BEL, D., FLEISCHMANN, M. (2023): In praise of (spatial) bundles. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51, 1, 3-6.
• This is an editorial that focuses attention on an approach to the classification of (urban) landscapes called spatial bundles.

Clustergram: Visualization and diagnostics for cluster analysis

• FLEISCHMANN, M., (2023): Clustergram: Visualization and diagnostics for cluster analysis. Journal of Open Source Software, 8, 89, 5240.
• This paper presents a Python package called clustergram that provides tools for analyzing clustering solutions and visualizing observation behavior in relation to a tested range of class count possibilities, enabling a deeper understanding of the behavior of observations divided into classes and more informed decision making about the optimal number of classes.

Inequalities in experiencing urban functions. An exploration of human digital (geo-)footprints

• CALAFIORE, A., SAMARDZHIEV, K., ROWE, F., FLEISCHMANN, M., ARRIBAS-BEL, D. (2023): Inequalities in experiencing urban functions. An exploration of human digital (geo-)footprints. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. [online first]
• This study uses high spatial-temporal resolution data provided by Spectus.ai to investigate how the level of deprivation in the area where people live affects the types of urban environments they are more likely to use for their daily activities.