A STOCK FLOW MODEL OF DEFINING RACIALLY INTEGRATED NEIGHBORHOODS/

Authors
Citation
G. Galster, A STOCK FLOW MODEL OF DEFINING RACIALLY INTEGRATED NEIGHBORHOODS/, Journal of urban affairs, 20(1), 1998, pp. 43-51
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Urban Studies
Journal title
ISSN journal
07352166
Volume
20
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
43 - 51
Database
ISI
SICI code
0735-2166(1998)20:1<43:ASFMOD>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
This article discusses the appropriate measurement of neighborhood rac ial integration and proposes a new operational definition. A neighborh ood is integrated if currently (Ij its stock of households may be clas sified as ''mixed'' (no single group comprises more than 75% of the ne ighborhood's population), and (2) the flow of households into and out of this stock is such that it will be so classified for a decade in th e future. The article mathematically develops stability boundaries tha t researchers and policy makers can use to assess the degree to which contemporaneous flows of households into and out of mixed neighborhood s will render them integrated in the future.