GIScience and Neighborhood Change: Toward and Understanding of Processes of Change

Processes of neighborhood change are the result of the unfolding of events and decisions by multiple actors operating at varying spatial and temporal scales, enabled and constrained upon an unequal urban landscape. The contributions of GIScience towards understanding these processes has evolved from the simple mapping of static, cross-sectional maps towards an embrace of novel data and methods that enable longitudinal trajectories to be extracted and neighborhood futures to be predicted. In this article, I review these advancements and chart a course forward that considers a future research agenda that is critically cognizant of the potentials and perils of new data sources and method, is representative of the full spectrum of processes operating both visibly and invisibly that give rise to observed neighborhood outcomes, and considers their varying spatial and temporal scales.