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>> The long history of segregation
analysis in the United States tends to think
of cities as either segregated or diverse.
How segregated are Blacks from Whites.
And this is an important question no
doubt, but we're dealing with couples
that might be Black-Asian or Native
American-White so how do we come
to characterize neighborhoods and cities.
We need the typology of the neighborhoods.
So, if an Asian-White couple were
to survey the landscape in Omaha
or New York City how do we
think they saw the city?
How did they view the city?
So, we wanted ways of thinking about the city
that we think characterize
the different neighborhoods.
You can actually have segregation
and diversity next to one another.
So, we came up with our schema.
We would classify neighborhoods by how
diverse they were, but also recognize,
which group was dominant within that.
You could have a highly diverse
neighborhood where no group is dominant
and we call those tracks, those
neighborhoods are highly diverse.
And then we have tracks that might me moderately
diverse, but with one group that's dominant.
And then we have tracks in our
schema that are not diverse,
and then we identify the group that's dominant,
White dominant, Black dominant, Asian dominant.
So, students are urban, sociology
urban, economic urban geography.
You can go to these websites for each city
in the United States and see how they look
through the lens that we've created.
They can see also how the cities are
changing between 1990, 2000 and 2010.
The other thing we've done, we've gone beyond
the metropolitan areas that were the points
of our initial interest and we have
characterized every census track
in every state this way.
So, we have a component of the website there
where you can go and look at North Dakota
or you can go and look at Alabama by
census track for 1990, 2000 and 2010
and witness the changes or in
some cases the lack of change
that has occurred in those states.
We're going to move off to thinking about how
neighborhoods change and one of the issues
about neighborhood change surely
involves our neighborhoods gentrifying.
We have information about if a
neighborhood has become White dominant
and was Black dominant is that gentrification.
So, we can attach that information on racial
transition to other information perhaps
on housing price transition or income
transition in those neighborhoods and then begin
to identify are they gentrifying.
So, you can use are schema in various ways; you
can apply it to a country as a whole, to states,
to cities and the way we do it on the
website is to apply it to neighborhoods.
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