- Housing, Contexts, and the Well-Being of Children and Youth
- Volume 16 Number 1
- Managing Editor: Mark D. Shroder
- Associate Editor: Michelle P. Matuga
The Outlines and Extents of Segregation
Ron Wilson
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent the official positions or policies of the Office of Policy Development and Research, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or the U.S. government.
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) organize and clarify the patterns of human activities on the Earth’s surface and their interaction with each other. GIS data, in the form
of maps, can quickly and powerfully convey relationships to policymakers and the public.
This department of Cityscape includes maps that convey important housing or community
development policy issues or solutions. If you have made such a map and are willing to
share it in a future issue of Cityscape, please contact rwilson@umbc.edu.
Maps of segregation often highlight concentration patterns of racial or ethnic groups. Patterns at the edges of the segregated areas are not typically shown or discussed in many of these maps. The lack of attention to the edges—transition areas—may be because it is assumed that segregated areas change abruptly from one racial group to another. Exhibit 1, however, as an example, reveals patterns of racial integration that form at the edges and outline the boundaries of the segregated areas in Chicago.
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