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Siegel-Hawley, Geneveve; Frankenberg, Erica – National Education Policy Center, 2016
"The Integration Anomaly" explores a "puzzling divergence" between changes in metropolitan residential and school segregation. Based on a review of existing literature, it argues that the best way to address rising school segregation is to decouple school assignment from neighborhoods through universal school choice. The report…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, School Segregation, Elementary Secondary Education, Residential Patterns
Siegel, Jay – 1970
This study focuses on the relationship between the home and job location of the household within the metropolitan area. The primary question asked is what are the important factors in explaining the decentralization of the metropolitan population and, secondly, are there behavioral differences between white and minority group households. A model…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Family Mobility, Metropolitan Areas, Minority Groups
Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, Washington, DC. – 1975
This report presents a set of tested procedures designed to yield current estimates of housing demand potential among black and Spanish speaking minority groups in United States metropolitan housing market areas during periods between Federal censuses. To produce estimates for the black homeseeker market, the analyst first "ages" the black…
Descriptors: Blacks, Housing, Housing Needs, Measurement Techniques
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And Others; Roof, Wade Clark – Social Forces, 1976
Based on an analysis of the age, size, percent black, and occupational income differential in 32 southern cities, the findings show that age is still the strongest predictor of residential segregation. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Groups, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Dropouts
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Schwirian, Kent P.; And Others – Social Forces, 1990
Data for 318 metropolitan areas confirm the Burgess model's positive relationship between social status and residential distance from the urban core. Over time, all categories of metropolitan areas moved in the predicted direction of status distribution, with stronger associations for older, larger, and more industrial cities. Contains 53…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Models, Place of Residence, Population Distribution
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Downey, Liam – Social Forces, 2005
This article addresses shortcomings in the literature on environmental inequality by (a) setting forth and testing four models of environmental inequality and (b) explicitly linking environmental inequality research to spatial mismatch theory and to the debate on the declining significance of race. The explanatory models ask whether the…
Descriptors: Race, Social Class, Racial Segregation, Residential Patterns
Guthrie, Harold W. – 1975
This paper focuses on partial models for solving urban problems to contrast our achievements as social scientists with our aspirations as prescribers of public policy. The objectives of this paper are (1) to review some of the reasons that an ideal set of solutions for urban problems has not been produced by social scientists and (2) to describe…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Metropolitan Areas, Migration Patterns, Models