Imperial College London
Professor Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Professor Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics

Senior Research Investigator
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9853h.jensen Website

 
 
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Location

 

1201Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Sahasranaman:2017:10.1371/journal.pone.0183468,
author = {Sahasranaman, A and Jensen, HJ},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0183468},
journal = {PLoS ONE},
title = {Cooperative dynamics of neighborhood economic status in cities},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183468},
volume = {12},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We significantly extend our earlier variant of the Schelling model, incorporating a neighborhood Potential function as well as an agent wealth gain function to study the long term evolution of the economic status of neighborhoods in cities. We find that the long term patterns of neighborhood relative economic status (RES) simulated by this model reasonably replicate the empirically observed patterns from American cities. Specifically, we find that larger fractions of rich and poor neighborhoods tend to, on average, retain status for longer than lower- and upper-middle wealth neighborhoods. The use of a Potential function that measures the relative wealth of neighborhoods as the basis for agent wealth gain and agent movement appears critical to explaining these emergent patterns of neighborhood RES. This also suggests that the empirically observed RES patterns could indeed be universal and that we would expect to see these patterns repeated for cities around the world. Observing RES behavior over even longer periods of time, the model predicts that the fraction of poor neighborhoods retaining status remains almost constant over extended periods of time, while the fraction of middle-wealth and rich neighborhoods retaining status reduces significantly over time, tending to zero.
AU  - Sahasranaman,A
AU  - Jensen,HJ
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pone.0183468
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1932-6203
TI  - Cooperative dynamics of neighborhood economic status in cities
T2  - PLoS ONE
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183468
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000407856600139&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/64188
VL  - 12
ER  -
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