Racial and ethnic price differentials in a small urban housing market

Same-same, but different

“…Most research on neighborhoods attempts to understand a specific effect, essence, or outcome of either a generalized set of neighborhoods or of a smaller, finite set of neighborhoods (Benenson et al, 2009;DeSilva et al, 2012;Friedrichs et al, 2003;Johnson Jr et al, 2004;Lynch & Rasmussen, 2004;Sharkey & Elwert, 2011;Zhang, 2004). They typically ask how a type of neighborhood affects the residents within it.…”

Using a new method to map quality of life

“…Since the early Chicago School (Park & Burgess, 1925), social scientists have been interested in the local dynamics of people and have asked questions revolving around a simple thesis: the local setting, be it social or structural, has an impact on the individuals living there. The studies that fall within this thesis range from the very tangible and directly measurable physical concepts such as pollution (Diekmann & Meyer, 2010;Huppé et al, 2013;Jayaraman & Nidhi, 2008), housing quality (DeSilva et al, 2012;Doocy et al, 2007;Filandri & Olagnero, 2014;Hwang, 2015;Lu & Song, 2006;Peng et al, 2009;Sampson, 2008) and health (Johnson et al, 2017;Newbold et al, 2013;Yoon et al, 2015) to other studies more centred around the deprivation thesis. The latter studies often focus on the composition of the local neighbourhood such as overall income levels, unemployment rates, crime rates or similar characteristics (Galster, 2010;Garner & Raudenbush, 1991;Gieryn, 2002;Johnson et al, 2017;Leventhal & Brooks-Gunn, 2000;Lund, 2019Lund, , 2020Potter et al, 2012;Sampson, 2012).…”

From the dark end of the street to the bright side of the road: Automated redistricting of areas using physical barriers as dividers of social space

“…The goals of these studies vary in both how they perceive neighborhoods and how they conceptualize space. Some focus especially on segregation and to explain segregation inside areas (Bower et al, 2014; Breetzke and Horn, 2006; DeSilva et al, 2012; Grannis, 1998; Johnson et al, 2004; Zingher and Thomas, 2014), while others seek to explain social outcomes as effected by the total amount of neighborhoods (Buck, 2001; Fone et al, 2007; Pattison and Robins, 2002; Pickett and Pearl, 2001; Veenstra et al, 2005).…”