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The Decline of Inner Suburbs: The New Suburban Gothic in the United States

GEOGRAPHY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2007
John Rennie Short
In this article, we critically examine transformation and decline in US suburbs. We identify four distinct, chronological phases of development: suburban utopias, suburban conformity, suburban diversity, and suburban dichotomy. An element of this new suburban dichotomy is what we term suburban gothic. We theorize that the forces of an aging housing stock, land-use planning, and deindustrialization contribute to the divergent realities of US suburbs. [source]

Spatial point-process statistics: concepts and application to the analysis of lead contamination in urban soil,

ENVIRONMETRICS, Issue 4 2005
Christian Walter
Abstract This article explores the use of spatial point-process analysis as an aid to describe topsoil lead distribution in urban environments. The data used were collected in Glebe, an inner suburb of Sydney. The approach focuses on the locations of punctual events defining a point pattern, which can be statistically described through local intensity estimates and between-point distance functions. F -, G - and K -surfaces of a marked spatial point pattern were described and used to estimate nearest distance functions over a sliding band of quantiles belonging to the marking variable. This provided a continuous view of the point pattern properties as a function of the marking variable. Several random fields were simulated by selecting points from random, clustered or regular point processes and diffusing them. Recognition of the underlying point process using variograms derived from dense sampling was difficult because, structurally, the variograms were very similar. Point-event distance functions were useful complimentary tools that, in most cases, enabled clear recognition of the clustered processes. Spatial sampling quantile point pattern analysis was defined and applied to the Glebe data set. The analysis showed that the highest lead concentrations were strongly clustered. The comparison of this data set with the simulation confidence limits of a Poisson process, a short-radius clustered point process and a geostatistical simulation showed a random process for the third quartile of lead concentrations but strong clustering for the data in the upper quartile. Thus the distribution of topsoil lead concentrations over Glebe may have resulted from several contamination processes, mainly from regular or random processes with large diffusion ranges and short-range clustered processes for the hot spots. Point patterns with the same characteristics as the Glebe experimental pattern could be generated by separate additive geostatistical simulation. Spatial sampling quantile point patterns statistics can, in an easy and accurate way, be used complementarily with geostatistical methods. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Home and Away: The Grounding of New Football Teams in Perth, Western Australia

THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 3 2002
Roy Jones
Metropolitan sporting, and particularly football, competitions were established in all of Australia's colonial state capital cities about a century ago. Typically, they were comprised of teams from and were supported by the inhabitants of working-class, inner suburbs. These competitions were the primary foci of Australians' sporting interest and loyalty for almost a century. But, with the shift of public attention and private capital to national competitions, the former stadia of many local clubs have become redundant spaces in what are now gentrifying inner suburbs. Simultaneously new, and even old, national league teams have sought larger, more modern (near) city centre venues for their operations. In this context, two new national league teams in Perth,Fremantle Dockers and Perth Glory,have experienced considerable challenges in establishing both physical ,homes' and local identities. These have included both the supplanting of traditional local clubs and the placating of new kinds of inner suburban residents. [source]

Ghettos in Canada's cities?

THE CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER/LE GEOGRAPHE CANADIEN, Issue 3 2006
Racial segregation, ethnic enclaves, poverty concentration in Canadian urban areas
Recent literature suggests a growing relationship between the clustering of certain visible minority groups in urban neighbourhoods and the spatial concentration of poverty in Canadian cities, raising the spectre of ghettoization. This paper examines whether urban ghettos along the U.S. model are forming in Canadian cities, using census data for 1991 and 2001 and borrowing a neighbourhood classification system specifically designed for comparing neighbourhoods in other countries to the U.S. situation. Ecological analysis is then performed in order to compare the importance of minority concentration, neighbourhood classification and housing stock attributes in improving our understanding of the spatial patterning of low-income populations in Canadian cities in 2001. The findings suggest that ghettoization along U.S. lines is not a factor in Canadian cities and that a high degree of racial concentration is not necessarily associated with greater neighbourhood poverty. On the other hand, the concentration of apartment housing, of visible minorities in general, and of a high level of racial diversity in particular, do help in accounting for the neighbourhood patterning of low income. We suggest that these findings result as much from growing income inequality within as between each visible minority group. This increases the odds of poor visible minorities of each group ending up in the lowest-cost, least-desirable neighbourhoods from which they cannot afford to escape (including social housing in the inner suburbs). By contrast, wealthier members of minority groups are more mobile and able to self-select into higher-status ,ethnic communities'. This research thus reinforces pleas for a more nuanced interpretation of segregation, ghettoization and neighbourhood dynamics. Il ressort de la littérature la plus récente qu'il existerait une association de plus en plus étroite entre la forte concentration en milieu urbain de personnes appartenant à des groupes de minorités visibles et la concentration spatiale de la pauvreté dans les villes canadiennes, phénomène qui n'est pas sans soulever le spectre de la ghettoïsation. C'est dans cette optique que ce papier examine si les ghettos urbains à l'américaine ont vu le jour dans les villes canadiennes, à partir des données des recensements de 1991 et de 2001 et à l'aide d'un système de classification des quartiers conçu spécifiquement pour établir des comparaisons entre les quartiers de différents pays et ceux des États-Unis. Une analyse écologique est ensuite menée afin de comparer l'importance de la concentration des minorités, la classification par quartier, et les caractéristiques du parc de logements et ainsi mieux comprendre la configuration spatiale des populations à faible revenu dans les villes canadiennes en 2001. Les résultats laissent entendre que la ghettoïsation à l'américaine n'est pas un facteur à prendre en compte en ce qui concerne les villes canadiennes, et que la tendance vers une concentration de groupes ethniques n'est pas nécessairement associée au niveau de pauvreté dans le voisinage. En revanche, la concentration d'immeubles à logements multiples, de minorités visibles en général et d'un niveau élevé de diversité raciale en particulier, expliquent, en partie, la distribution des personnes à faible revenu dans le voisinage. Ces résultats laissent entendre que la croissance de l'inégalité des revenus au sein des groupes de minorités visibles est aussi importante que l'inégalité qui existe entre eux. Ceci augmente les chances que les membres les plus défavorisés de tous les groupes de minorités visibles échouent dans un quartier précaire et moins que désirable duquel ils n'ont pas les moyens de s'échapper (y compris les logements sociaux dans les quartiers centraux). Par contre, les membres les plus aisés des groupes minoritaires peuvent choisir de vivre dans une ,communauté ethnique, dont le statut socio-économique est plus élevé. Cette recherche peut servir dans les plaidoyers en faveur d'une interprétation plus nuancée de la ségrégation, la ghettoïsation et les dynamiques de quartier. [source]