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What are the major factors that influence the African American concentration?

Urban Residential Segregation. What are the major factors that influence the African American concentration?. Urban Residential Segregation. Principal features of social interaction & residential segregation Major factors influencing residential segregation

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What are the major factors that influence the African American concentration?

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  1. Urban Residential Segregation What are the major factors that influence the African American concentration?

  2. Urban Residential Segregation • Principal features of social interaction & residential segregation • Major factors influencing residential segregation • GIS examples to visualize and analyze

  3. Principal Features of Social Interaction & Residential Segregation

  4. Urban Residential Differentiation Based on residential segregation- social interaction that develops from socioeconomic background, demographics, and culture Socioeconomic background Age Ethnicity Lifestyle SOCIAL DISTANCE Residential proximity (physical distance) Social interaction Residential segregation Community Figure 12.2 Social Interaction and residential segregation (p 293 in text)

  5. Why did the author title this chapter • “The Residential Kaleidoscope”? Socioeconomic background Age Ethnicity Lifestyle SOCIAL DISTANCE Residential proximity (physical distance) Social interaction Residential segregation Community Figure 12.2 Social Interaction and residential segregation

  6. Social Interaction • Primary relationships • Family • Friends • Secondary relationships • Instrumental • Expressive (Intrinsic)

  7. Social Distance, Residential Proximity, & Social Interaction Socioeconomic background Age Ethnicity Lifestyle SOCIAL DISTANCE Residential proximity (physical distance) Social interaction Residential segregation Community Figure 12.2 Social Interaction and residential segregation

  8. Urban Residential Segregation • Relationship between social interaction, • social distance, & physical distance not that simple: • - difficult to isolate • - “shrinking world” • But distinctive residential neighborhoods do exist

  9. Community & Residential Segregation Socioeconomic background Age Ethnicity Lifestyle SOCIAL DISTANCE Residential proximity (physical distance) Social interaction Residential segregation Community Figure 12.2 Social Interaction and residential segregation

  10. Major Factors Influencing Urban Residential Segregation

  11. Urban Residential Differentiation • Major factors influencing residential segregation: • 1) Social status • 2) Household type • 3) Ethnicity • 4) Lifestyle

  12. Major factors influencing residential segregation • Social status: • position or rank of person or group within the society • Empirical level- • Educational qualifications • Occupation • Income • Conceptual level- • Class (values & culture) • Class structure • Class factions

  13. Major factors influencing residential segregation (1- Social status) • Educational system – key element • Determinant of skills that decide the • starting point in labor force • Social reproduction

  14. Major factors influencing residential segregation • 2) Household type: A category of a household based on the presence or absence of family members • Nuclear family unit • Single parent family • Person living alone • Childless young heterosexual couples • Gay couples • Empty nesters • Divorced & remarried parents with children • Small groups • Each type has specific housing needs & preferences • Household life cycle

  15. Major factors influencing residential segregation • 3) Ethnicity: any group of people primarily characterized • by attributes of race, religion, nationality, or culture • Group categories • Charter • Minority • Assimilation • Behavioral • Structural

  16. Major factors influencing residential segregation • (3- Ethnicity) • Congregation- residential clustering through choice • Functions fulfilled: • Defensive • Support • Cultural preservation • Attack

  17. Major factors influencing residential segregation • (3 Ethnicity) • Ways to measure ethnic segregation empirically: • Index of dissimilarity • Index of segregation • Index of isolation • Are U.S. cities really melting pots? x - y ii

  18. Major factors influencing residential segregation • 4) Lifestyle: A way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group • Classic US lifestyles (Wendell Bell): • Familists • Careerists • Consumerists • Alternative US lifestyles • Gay • Recreation & sports oriented • Singles • Retirement community

  19. GIS Examples to Visualize and Analyze Urban Residential Segregation

  20. Urban Residential Segregation How can we use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to visualize and analyze urban residential segregation in our local area? • Socioeconomic and demographic maps based on data • from the NEOCANDO website • Other analytic map results

  21. Urban Residential Segregation NEO CANDO website: http://neocando.case.edu 5

  22. Spatial pattern of residential segregation

  23. Spatial relationship of 2 residential segregation variables

  24. Spatial Analysis of 2 residential segregation variables through spatial queries Tracts with African American percent >= 90 and median household Income < $23,000 Using a spatial SQL, we can identify the City, Ward, or Neighborhood that these tracts are located.

  25. Pearson’s correlation coefficient

  26. Index of Dissimilarity for City of Cleveland, 2010 x - y ii x - y ii

  27. Other GIS analytic map examples

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