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[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/05/a-history-of-residential-segregation-in-the-us/ by Les Picker 18/5/15 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | [https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/05/a-history-of-residential-segregation-in-the-us/ by Les Picker 18/5/15 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM] | ||
In The National Rise in Residential Segregation (NBER Working Paper No.20934), Trevon Logan and John Parmanintroduce a first-of-its-kind measure of residential segregation based upon the racial similarity of next-door neighbors. Using the complete manuscript pages of the federal census to identify the races of next-door neighbors for the period 1880-1940, the authors were able to analyze segregation consistently and comprehensively for all areas in the United States, allowing for an in-depth view of the variation in segregation across time and space. | In The National Rise in Residential Segregation (NBER Working Paper No.20934), Trevon Logan and John Parmanintroduce a first-of-its-kind measure of residential segregation based upon the racial similarity of next-door neighbors. Using the complete manuscript pages of the federal census to identify the races of next-door neighbors for the period 1880-1940, the authors were able to analyze segregation consistently and comprehensively for all areas in the United States, allowing for an in-depth view of the variation in segregation across time and space. | ||
=====What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot.===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/traffic-atlanta-segregation.html by Kevin M. Kruse 14/8/19 The New York Times Magazine] | |||
Atlanta has some of the worst traffic in the United States. Drivers there average two hours each week mired in gridlock, hung up at countless spots, from the constantly clogged Georgia 400 to a complicated cluster of overpasses at Tom Moreland Interchange, better known as “Spaghetti Junction.” The Downtown Connector — a 12-to-14-lane megahighway that in theory connects the city’s north to its south — regularly has three-mile-long traffic jams that last four hours or more. | |||
