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Urban Studies, Vol. 43, No. 9, 1549-1579 (2006)
DOI: 10.1080/00420980600831759

Advantage and Disadvantage across Australia's Extended Metropolitan Regions: A Typology of Socioeconomic Outcomes

Scott Baum

Urban Research Program, School of Environmental Planning, Griffth University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, s.baum{at}griffith.edu.au

Michelle Haynes

Social Research Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 5072, Australia, m.haynes@ uq.edu.au

Yolanda van Gellecum

Social Research Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 5072, Australia, y.vangellecum{at}uq.edu.au

Jung Hoon Han

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (UQ Centre), University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia, jh.han{at}uq.edu.au

New national and international economic and social forces have reshaped national geographies in general and the characteristics of cities in particular, resulting in a range of diverse social and spatial outcomes. These outcomes, which include greater differentiation across, within and between cities has become a feature of the economic and social forces associated with post-Fordist social structures. Taking localities across Australia's metropolitan regions, this paper develops a typology of advantage and disadvantage using a model-based approach with clustering of data represented by a parameterised Gaussian mixture model and confidence intervals of the means providing a measure of differences between the clusters. The analysis finds seven clusters of localities that represent different aspects of the socio-spatial structure of the metropolitan regions studied.


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