601. Urban socio-spatial differentiation: mapping neighborhood stratification in Bilbao

Abstract

This paper proposes an innovative methodology for analysing socio-spatial stratification of neighbourhoods discriminating for the combined effect of various analytical dimensions of neighbourhood differentiation using multivariate statistical techniques: Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) and Cluster Analysis. The first technique makes it possible to fix the neighbourhoods’ relative positions in relation to various groups of variables or dimensions while the second defines groups of neighbourhoods with homogeneous characteristics based on the combined effect of all variables. Using the case of Bilbao, this research presents a characterization of the city’s neighbourhoods according to a series of demographic, socioeconomic, cohesion and housing variables projecting a synthetic map of Bilbao’s neighbourhood stratification.