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Wang, Yiming.

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From structure to agency: Essays on the spatial analysis of residential segregation.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	From structure to agency: Essays on the spatial analysis of residential segregation./
作者:	Wang, Yiming.
面頁冊數:	130 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-10A.
標題:	American Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3466129
ISBN:	9781124789262

From structure to agency: Essays on the spatial analysis of residential segregation.
Wang, Yiming.

From structure to agency: Essays on the spatial analysis of residential segregation. - 130 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2011.

Contemporary urban spatial analysis arguably features an emphasis on spatial structure, whereas understudying the background agent actions. This dissertation is intended to address such oversight, by presenting three independent essays on the spatial analysis of residential segregation by race in urban America. Combining the three essays, this dissertation demonstrates a series of methodological considerations and innovations to rediscover agency in modern quantitative urban spatial analysis. Aside from its methodological orientation, this dissertation implicates a number of issues related to planning theory as well as public policy.

ISBN: 9781124789262Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

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520 $a The first essay sets out by recognizing two types of variance generally associated with the phenomenon of racial residential segregation. One type involves differing racial compositions between spatial locations. The other is concerned with varying residential spatial distributions between ethnic groups. The essay then presents a spatial analytical approach to identify and measure the two types of variance through a decomposition of an entropy index regarding racial diversity. A region's racial diversity entropy is found to comprise three factors: a) the overall spatial distribution of regional population; b) the ratio between the number of ethnic groups and that of spatial areal units within the region, and, c) the differential between two types of variance aforementioned. For demonstrative purpose census data from Los Angeles County are studied using this approach. The results suggest the second type of variance to be the primary contributor to the increasing racial diversity in Los Angeles. Implications regarding affordable homeownership and inclusionary housing policies are discussed accordingly.
520 $a The second essay delivers a nonlinear econometric model about White flight in Los Angeles, alluding to Thomas Schelling's (1971) classic neighborhood tipping model. In this essay, the Schelling original is translated into a fuzzy set version and tested against demographic census data in Los Angeles County from 1960 to 1990. Results of nonlinear least squares regressions indicate that the tipping point has shifted from around 0.36 between 1960 and 1970 to 0.78 between 1980 and 1990. Regression results also suggest a constantly decreasing extent of White flight in the census tract level. These findings confirm the existence of the fuzzy tipping mechanism. They also reflect steady progression toward racially integrated urban residential pattern in Los Angles County from 1960 to 1990.
520 $a The third essay posits that segregation models often focus on private racial preference but overlook the institutional context. The essay thus represents an effort to move beyond such preference centricity. In the paper, an ideal Pigovian regulatory intervention is emulated and added into Schelling's (1971) spatial proximity model of racial segregation, with an aim to preserve collective housing welfare against the negative externalities induced by the moving of individual agents. A large number of cellular automations generate some intriguing results. A key discovery is that the Pigovian regulation tends to render less efficient whereas more ethnically integrated residential patterns than laissez faire. This finding informs some current policy debates about the racial impacts of such housing regulation as zoning, which, albeit complex in practice, is arguably Pigovian by economic nature. On top of its policy implications, this paper demonstrates a micro simulation approach to reconcile the preference-based and institution-orientated intellectual perspectives regarding racial residential segregation.
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