Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores

Y Shaker, SE Grineski, TW Collins… - Agriculture and Human …, 2023 - Springer
In the 1930s, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) graded the mortgage security of
urban US neighborhoods. In doing so, the HOLC engaged in the practice, imbued with …

Historical redlining and food environments: a study of 102 urban areas in the United States

M Li, F Yuan - Health & place, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective Unhealthy food environments are disproportionally concentrated in
neighborhoods with clustering of racial/ethnic minorities and poverty. This disparity has …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: food access at dollar stores and its implications for public health: report of a workshop on identifying research priorities

W Feng, H Fromkin, JB Harney, R Evans, CM Gerrity… - Advances in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid growth of dollar stores as retail sources of food in the United States is a
phenomenon with implications for diets, nutrition, and well-being. We convened a broadly …

Consumer desires and the fluctuating balance between liquid and solid consumption: The case of Finnish clothing libraries

LM Rosenberg, HA Weijo… - Journal of Consumer …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The ongoing rise of liquid consumption manifests in the growing popularity of ephemeral,
access-based, and dematerialized forms of consumption that contrast with traditional solid …

COVID-19 exacerbates unequal food access

A Kar, Y Motoyama, AL Carrel, HJ Miller, HTK Le - Applied Geography, 2021 - Elsevier
Inequality to food access has always been a serious problem, yet it became even more
critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated social inequality and reshaped …

Black businesses matter: A longitudinal study of black-owned restaurants in the COVID-19 pandemic using geospatial big data

X Huang, X Bao, Z Li, S Zhang… - Annals of the American …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Black communities in the United States have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-
19 pandemic; however, few empirical studies have been conducted to examine the …

Sociodemographic disparities in tobacco retailer density in the United States, 2000–2017

SD Mills, AY Kong, AE Reimold… - Nicotine and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Studies find differences in tobacco retailer density according to neighborhood
sociodemographic characteristics, raising issues of social justice, but not all research is …

Dollar store expansion and independent grocery retailer contraction

R Lopez, K Marchesi… - … Perspectives and Policy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the effects of dollar store entry on independent grocery retailers in the
United States between 2000 and 2019. We utilized an establishment‐level dataset …

More than mapping: improving methods for studying the geographies of food access

J Shannon, AM Reese, D Ghosh… - … Journal of Public …, 2021 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Geospatial analyses of food environments—neighborhood food sources such as
supermarkets, corner stores, restaurants, or food pantries—and their impacts on dietary …

Sociodemographic inequities in tobacco retailer density: Do neighboring places matter?

AY Kong, PL Delamater, NC Gottfredson, KM Ribisl… - Health & place, 2021 - Elsevier
We apply a spatial perspective to measure the extent to which the 2018 US racial, ethnic,
and socioeconomic composition of census tracts were each associated with tobacco retailer …