This dissertation centers on research at the intersection of labor, public, and urban economics. Chapter 1 details the role, process, and history of census tract delineation prior to each Decennial Census, and investigates short- and long-run implications of neighborhoods that receive further delineation, or become "split". Using a…

Race and class inequality have long governed patterns of residential and school segregation across America. However, as neighborhoods across the country gentrify, new questions arise as to whether or not these demographic shifts in neighborhoods correspond with school-level demographic changes. This study examines New York City's most rapidly…

Inaction to address housing segregation in metropolitan areas has resulted in persistently high levels of residential segregation. As the Supreme Court has recently limited school districts' voluntary integration efforts, this article considers the role of residential segregation in maintaining racially isolated schools, namely what is known about…

This report describes housing desegregation gains in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky, largely caused by school desegregation. The work of Judge James F. Gordon, who presided over the school desegregation plan, is cited as instrumental in aiding in this process. He ruled that no child in the minority in a neighborhood would be used for…

In order to determine the extent of residential segregation among first or second generation Arabs living in and around Paterson, New Jersey, 286 families were located and interviewed. Field data were combined with statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau Population and Housing Summary Tape File 1-A. It was found that residential segregation was not…

Study of census figures for Pittsburgh between 1900 and 1920 reveals that World War I had only a small measurable effect on reducing occupational segregation of Black men and White men and residential segregation by race. The war had no effect on reducing occupational segregation of Black women and White women. (BJV)

Previous studies of the residential succession process have described the patterns of succession in terms of stages defined either by the responses of the residents or by the percent of black population occupying the area. The present study approaches the investigation from an operational point of view, using a microscopic technique of data…

This book originated with a concern for a crucial issue in planning; namely, what is the possibility of creating social policies to modify existing patterns of segregation in order to achieve social justice (however defined) in such institutions as housing or schools. Consequently, although this is an academic, ecological analysis of residential…

Measures black segregation at four geographic levels: state, county, city, and neighborhood, from 1900 to 1990. Cross-references data from the decennial U.S. census with dissimilarity and isolation indices. Concludes that segregation patterns have consistently evolved to minimize white contact with blacks. (MJP)

Interrelated forces which have shaped the distribution of population in metropolitan areas, and the social geography of the suburbs in particular, are described in this work. Contemporary patterns and problems concerning the organization of social space in the outer city are reviewed. Suburbia's residential spatial structure is examined in terms…

THIS BOOK IS AN ANALYSIS OF THE ASSIMILATION AND RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION PATTERNS OF TEN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT GROUPS (FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION) IN TEN MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES FROM 1910 TO 1950. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM THE DECENNIAL UNITED STATES CENSUSES. IN EACH CITY GROUPS WERE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR RELATIVE NUMERICAL IMPORTANCE THEREIN.…