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Multi-Scale Residential Segregation: Black Exceptionalism and America's Changing Color Line
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Parisi, Domenico; Lichter, Daniel T.; Taquino, Michael C. – Social Forces, 2011
America's changing color line is perhaps best expressed in shifting patterns of neighborhood residential segregation--the geographic separation of races. This research evaluates black exceptionalism by using the universe of U.S. blocks from the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses to provide a "single" geographically inclusive national…
Descriptors: Residential Patterns, Neighborhoods, Racial Segregation, Geographic Location
Changes in the Coincidence of the Boundaries and Populations of Central Cities.
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And Others; Smith, Joel – Social Forces, 1979
Investigated in this article are several factors that affect the annexation by central cities of urbanized areas to retain decentralized populations. A multivariate model of the responses of central cities to over- and underboundedness is presented and evaluated. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Dropouts, Population Distribution, Population Trends, Statistical Studies
The Residential Decentralization of Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950-1980.
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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