Urban residential segregation

Date and country of first publication

1975
United States

Definition

Urban residential segregation refers to the separation of different racial or socioeconomic groups into distinct residential areas within a city. This phenomenon can be seen in many cities around the world, where certain neighborhoods are predominantly inhabited by people of a certain race or income level. Residential segregation can perpetuate social and economic inequalities, as it can limit access to resources and opportunities for marginalized groups. It can also contribute to social isolation, mistrust, and discrimination between different racial or socioeconomic groups. efforts to address urban residential segregation include promoting affordable housing, implementing policies to promote integration, and addressing systemic discrimination and inequality.

Related segregation forms

Urban residential segregation is frequently discussed in the literature with the following segregation forms:

de facto segregation, linguistic segregation, urban segregation, statutory racial segregation, socioresidential segregation, ethnic group segregation, multiscale segregation

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Notes

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Urban residential segregation appears in the following literature

Stephens J.D., Wittick R.I. (1975). An instructional unit for simulating Urban residential segregation. Professional Geographer, 27(3), 340-346. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-0124.1975.00340.x

Roof W.C. (1979). Race and Residence: The Shifting Basis of American Race Relations. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 441(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/000271627944100102

Cloutier N.R. (1982). Urban residential segregation and black income.. Review of Economics and Statistics, 64(2), 282-288. https://doi.org/10.2307/1924307

White M.J. (1983). The measurement of spatial segregation.. American Journal of Sociology, 88(5), 1008-1018. https://doi.org/10.1086/227768

Cloutier N.R. (1984). The effect of structural and demographic change on urban residential segregation. Review of Social Economy, 42(1), 32-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346768408537433

Christopher A.J. (1989). Apartheid within apartheid: An assessment of official intra black segregation on the witwatersrand, south africa. Professional Geographer, 41(3), 328-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-0124.1989.00328.x

Lemon A. (1989). Redesigning the apartheid urban center. African Urban Quarterly, 4(3-4), 304-313. https://doi.org/

Christopher A.J. (1989). Spatial variations in the application of residential segregation in South African cities. Geoforum, 20(3), 253-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7185(89)90001-8

Morris A. (1994). The Desegregation of Hillbrow, Johannesburg, 1978 82. Urban Studies, 31(6), 821-834. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420989420080691

Grannis R. (1998). The importance of trivial streets: Residential streets and residential segregation. American Journal of Sociology, 103(6), 1530-1564. University of Chicago Press.https://doi.org/10.1086/231400

Collins W.J., Margo R.A. (2). Residential segregation and socioeconomic outcomes: When did ghettos go bad?. Economics Letters, 69(2), 239-243. Elsevier.https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(00)00300-1

Holloway S.R. (2). Identity, contingency and the urban geography of 'race'. Social and Cultural Geography, 1(2), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360020010202

Nagel J. (2). Sexualizing the sociological: Queering and querying the intimate substructure of social life. Sociological Quarterly, 41(1), 1-17. University of California Press.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb02363.x

Wu X.B., Sui D.Z. (2001). An initial exploration of a lacunarity based segregation measure. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 28(3), 433-446. Pion Limited.https://doi.org/10.1068/b2736

Collins W.J., Margo R.A. (2003). Race and the value of owner occupied housing, 1940 1990. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 33(3), 255-286. Elsevier.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-0462(02)00027-3

de la Espriella C. (2007). Designing for equality: Conceptualising a tool for strategic territorial planning. Habitat International, 31(3-4), 317-332. Elsevier Ltd.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2007.04.003

Brade I., Herfert G., Wiest K. (2009). Recent trends and future prospects of socio spatial differentiation in urban regions of Central and Eastern Europe: A lull before the storm?. Cities, 26(5), 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2009.05.001

de la Espriella C. (2009). A technique for small area poverty analyses. Urban Studies, 46(11), 2399-2421. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098009342449

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Johnston R., Poulsen M., Forrest J. (2011). Evaluating changing residential segregation in auckland, new zealand, using spatial statistics. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 102(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.2009.00577.x

Bourne L.S., Walks R.A. (2011). Segregation: Part I. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography, 534-546. Wiley-Blackwell.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395839.ch39

Maloutas T., Fujita K. (2012). Residential segregation in comparative perspective: Making sense of contextual diversity. Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective: Making Sense of Contextual Diversity, 1-329. Ashgate Publishing Ltd.https://doi.org/

Hedberg C., Tammaru T. (2013). 'Neighbourhood Effects' and 'City Effects': The Entry of Newly Arrived Immigrants into the Labour Market. Urban Studies, 50(6), 1165-1182. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098012461674

Ntiri D.W. (2013). How minority becomes majority: Exploring discursive and racialized shifts in the adult literacy conversation. Western Journal of Black Studies, 37(3), 159-168. Washington State University Press.https://doi.org/

Apparicio P., Martori J.C., Pearson A.L., Fournier É., Apparicio D. (2014). An Open Source Software for Calculating Indices of Urban Residential Segregation. Social Science Computer Review, 32(1), 117-128. SAGE Publications Inc..https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439313504539

Johnston R., Forrest J., Jones K., Manley D. (2016). The scale of segregation: ancestral groups in Sydney, 2011. Urban Geography, 37(7), 985-1008. Routledge.https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1139867

Maloutas T., Fujita K. (2016). Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective: Making Sense of Contextual Diversity. Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective: Making Sense of Contextual Diversity, 1-329. Taylor and Francis.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315605661

Bharathi N., Malghan D., Rahman A. (2019). Neighbourhood scale Residential Segregation in Indian Metros. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(30), 64-70. Economic and Political Weekly.https://doi.org/

Manley D., Johnston R., Jones K. (2019). Decomposing Multi Level Ethnic Segregation in Auckland, New Zealand, 2001 2013: Segregation Intensity for Multiple Groups at Multiple Scales. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 110(3), 319-338. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12314

Manley D., Jones K., Johnston R. (2019). Multiscale Segregation: Multilevel Modeling of Dissimilarity Challenging the Stylized Fact That Segregation Is Greater the Finer the Spatial Scale. Professional Geographer, 71(3), 566-578. Routledge.https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2019.1578977

Aragón I.F., Martínez C.L. (2019). The use of factor analysis in Urban research: The case of the metropolitan area of bilbao. Inequality and Uncertainty: Current Challenges for Cities, 225-249. Palgrave Macmillan.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9162-1_12

Bharathi N., Malghan D., Mishra S., Rahman A. (2021). Fractal urbanism: City size and residential segregation in India. World Development, 141(), -. Elsevier Ltd.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105397

Marques da Costa E., Antonello I.T. (2021). Urban planning and residential segregation in brazil the failure of the “special zone of social interest” instrument in londrina city (PR). Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(23), -. MDPI.https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313285