The contemporary practice of homeownership in the United States was born out of
government programs adopted during the New Deal. The Home Owners Loan Corporation …

In the thirty years since Massey and Denton's American Apartheid, sociological scholarship
on segregation has proliferated, calling attention to the ways in which the social geography …

It is common knowledge that urban neighborhoods have diverse and unequal social
profiles, and this makes a difference for the life prospects of their residents. We know much …

Escalation of human-elephant conflict (HEC) in India threatens its Asian elephant (Elephas
maximus) population and victimizes local communities. India supports 60% of the total Asian …

Structural racism is central for understanding Black families, but structural racism has not
been central to quantitative research on Black families. Instead, research on Black families …

The three decades from 1940 through 1970 mark a turning point in the spatial scale of Black–
White residential segregation in the United States compared with earlier years. We …

The Great Migration from the South and the rise of racial residential segregation strongly
shaped the twentieth-century experience of African Americans. Yet, little attention has been …

Intense precipitation events are projected to rise across the southeast USA. The field of
meteorology has expanded knowledge of urban precipitation, yet the uneven impacts of …

We provide the first estimates of immigrant residential segregation between 1850 and 1940
that cover the entire United States and are consistent across time and space. To do so, we …

Census data have long been a key tool for urban research, and the approaching 2020
Census offers a natural moment to reflect on how we use it. The highly partisan plan to …