Urban racial segregation has been a problem to many U.S. cities. Many
researchers have interested on the urban segregation issues since long time ago. To
understand and plan a better community, urban planners needs to know how to measure
the segregation and interpret the results. However, over the past several decades, many
scientists have proposed many types of urban segregation measures. Although a few of
them are commonly used nowadays, this doesn?t mean the other measures are not
appropriate. Disregarding the fact that some of the measures are mostly used or easily
calculated this paper attempts to gather many of the proposed and the most discussed
measures for comparison.
The results of the comparison were categorized in one group measure, two group
measure, and multi group measure. They are also divided in to the five dimensions of
segregation such as the evenness, exposure, concentration, clustering, and centralization.
Two U.S. metropolitan cities that are different in racial proportion, Houston, TX and
Philadelphia, PA, were selected for the comparison. All the selected measures are
evaluated in several criteria such as the scale, level of measures, data required, level of
complexity, and tendencies of using different census data.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7637 |
| Date | 2009 December 1900 |
| Creators | Djonie, Jamil |
| Contributors | Van Zandt, Shannon |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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