▪ Abstract During the twentieth century, African Americans participated in one of the most
significant demographic events in US history. Their “Great Migration” from the South to the …

More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban
neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and …

Using k-means cluster analysis and discriminant analysis, this study systematically
examines the trajectories of neighborhood change at the census tract level between 1990 …

In 1969, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire and burned for about twenty minutes,
damaging two railroad trestles. After initially receiving little local news coverage, the fire …

Housing abandonment contributes to neighborhood decline. It is a significant problem,
especially in places facing population loss. One approach for dealing with abandonment is …

“Abandonment” is a term that has no agreed-upon definition in the housing literature. As a
result, different measures of housing abandonment have been used by researchers and …

Does ethnic heterogeneity in neighbourhoods create co-operative or conflict-oriented
relationships among residents? Social theorists have long noted both the positive and …

This study hypothesizes that neighborhood change is produced by interactions of factors at
the neighborhood, municipal, and metropolitan scales. I present a multilevel analysis of …

Despite numerous studies on neighborhood change, the importance of spatial dependence
has largely been overlooked. This study aims to examine spillover effects among …

This article examines the relationship between racial/ethnic composition and neighborhood
economic change in a multilevel and longitudinal framework. I employ multilevel modeling to …