Residential Segregation in American Cities

Burgess, Ernest W.

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“…This process in its various aspects has been described by several sociologists, economists, geographers, and planners. Rankin and Grisgby, 1960;Burgess, 1928;Glazer and Moynihan, 1963;Morrill, 1965;Frazier, 1967). A computer simulation of the process has been tested by Vandell and Harrison (Vandell and Harrison, 1974).…”

Section: Housing and Neighborhood Changementioning

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The Process of Black Suburbanization

Clay

1979

Urban Affairs Quarterly

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In the past three decades, one of the major trends in metropolitan areas has been the substantial increase in the size of the suburban population. Until the most recent decade, blacks were not a significant part of this trend. In the decade of the 1960's more than 800,000 blacks moved from the central cities to suburban parts of metropolitan areas. While the black proportion of the total population did not change as a result of this movement, this is only because white outmigration continued at a high level.While there have been numerous studies of black mobility, and separately of blacks in the suburbs, there have been no systematic inquiries into the process by which this migration takes place. This thesis is an investigation of the process of black suburbanization. The hypothesis suggests that black suburbanization is a function of the level of black "effective demand." The thesis is organized around three elements to test this hypothesis. Who, among blacks move to the suburbs, what type of physical setting (housing and neighborhood) do they move to, and what pattern emerges in their settlement? Census data and case studies are the sources of data.With respect to the first element --who among blacks moved to the suburbs --the major finding was that those who move were younger and better off (economically) than incumbent black suburbanites or blacks who are in the central city. This finding is contrary to the conventional wisdom based on earlier censuses, and comes through quite convincingly when the gross population flows are examined.It was also found that characteristics of the housing and the neighborhood were very closely related to the level of well-being and the percentage of blacks in the neighborhood. For example, lower-income blacks were in neighborhoods with the worst physical characteristics and the greatest percentage of black population. The better-off blacks were in newer areas where there were fewer, but more recently migrant blacks. In the past three decades, one of the major trends in metropolitan areas has been the substantial increase in the size of the suburban population. Until the most recent decade, blacks were not a significant part of this trend. In the decade of the 1960's more than 800,000 blacks moved from the central cities to suburban parts of metropolitan areas. While the black proportion of the total population did not change as a result of this movement, this is only because white outmigration continued at a high level.While there have been numerous studies of black mobility, and separately of blacks in the suburbs, there have been no systematic inquiries into the process by which this migration takes place. This thesis is an investigation of the process of black suburbanization. The hypothesis suggests that black suburbanization is a function of the level of black "effective demand."The thesis is organized around three elements to test this hypothesis. Who, among blacks, move to the suburbs, what type of physical setting (housing and neighborhood) they move to, and what patte...

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Section: Housing and Neighborhood Changementioning

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The Process of Black Suburbanization

Clay

1979

Urban Affairs Quarterly

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“…Centrándonos en su medición, la segregación escolar se nutre de las aportaciones y avances que se producen en el ámbito de la segregación espacial o residencial, desarrollado desde la Sociología y la Economía desde los años 20 del pasado siglo (Burgess, 1928;Miller, 1927). Desde esta perspectiva más amplia, Massey y Denton (1988), en un artículo clásico, revisaron una veintena de índices de segregación y los agruparon en dimensiones.…”

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Midiendo la segregación escolar en América Latina. Un análisis metodológico utilizando el TERCE / Measuring the School Segregation in Latin America. A Methodological Analysis using TERCE

Murillo¹

2016

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Descriptores: Segregación escolar, Estatus socioeconómico, Educación básica, América Latina, Metodología.School segregation, understood as the unequal distribution of students in schools based on their personal or social characteristics, is an element of educational equity with a clear impact on social injustice that has not been deeply studied in Latin America. This article presents a methodological guide on the use of different schooling segregation index available to estimate its magnitude. There is debate about the advantages and limitations of each index. Similarly, the magnitude of school segregation by socioeconomic status in Primary Education in Latin America is determined. Index of Dissimilarity, Gorard, Isolation, Square Root and SocioEconomic Inclusion analysed with different criteria forming the minority group: P10, Q1 and Q4. The results provide a broad discussion on the potential of each index. The use of the index of socioeconomic inclusion defends as well as the use of average between Q1 and Q4 to get an overall picture of the phenomenon. For this, the TERCE database is used, and high magnitude of school segregation in Latin America are offered.

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“…There are many examples on this type of study. One of the most well-known is the study of the city of Chicago, with its concentric rings [11]. Most traditional segregation measures are usually based on household income.…”

Section: Urban Segregationmentioning

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Urban Segregation and Socio-Spatial Interactions: A Configurational Approach

Machado

Maraschin

2018

Urban Science

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Abstract:Urban segregation is an inherent feature of cities and becomes a problem when excluding or hindering certain groups from accessing services, activities and spaces. In Brazil, segregation by social class is dominant in the structure of cities and public policies rarely address urban configuration as part of the segregation problem. This work addresses segregation with a shift in emphasis from traditional housing segregation to segregation as the restraint of socio-spatial interactions, thus including other facets of the phenomenon that have not yet been properly explored and seeking new spatially relevant metrics. This paper aims to present a methodology of segregation analysis based on configurational models and develop an empirical application in a Brazilian city. Representing the probabilities of interaction between different socio-economic groups in public spaces, a configurational model was used, addressing retail-residence spatial relationship. The attributes of population size, household income and number of retail establishments were considered. The results allowed identifying the probabilistic residence-retail trajectories for high and low income groups, providing a first measure of spatial segregation. The conclusions seek to highlight the importance of configurational approaches for segregation studies, as well as to show potentialities and limits of this methodology.

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Residential Segregation in American Cities

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The Process of Black Suburbanization

The Process of Black Suburbanization

Midiendo la segregación escolar en América Latina. Un análisis metodológico utilizando el TERCE / Measuring the School Segregation in Latin America. A Methodological Analysis using TERCE

Urban Segregation and Socio-Spatial Interactions: A Configurational Approach

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