This paper reports the findings of a national study of black-white differentials in housing consumption. The main issue explored is whether blacks pay higher prices and/or consume different residential packages than whites as a result of racial discrimination and segregation. When blacks living in white neighborhoods were compared with whites, it was found that blacks purchased different reside...

Accessibility is one of the important factors in public open space design and the creation of equitable neighborhoods. Limitations caused by physical disabilities should not be a barrier for accessing desired spaces and people must be able to live with the greatest possible independence regardless of mobility limitations. The purpose of this paper was to identify the inclusive criteria of pe...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated the spatial accessibility of large "chain" supermarkets in relation to neighborhood racial composition and poverty. METHODS We used a geographic information system to measure Manhattan block distance to the nearest supermarket for 869 neighborhoods (census tracts) in metropolitan Detroit. We constructed moving average spatial regression models to adjust for spatial aut...

People who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to have poor physical and mental health, but this might be due to selective residential mobility rather than causal neighborhood effects. As a test of social causation, I examined whether persons were less healthy when they were living in disadvantaged neighborhoods than at other times when they were living in more advantaged neighborhoods. Da...

People who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to have poor physical and mental health, but this might be due to selective residential mobility rather than causal neighborhood effects. As a test of social causation, I examined whether persons were less healthy when they were living in disadvantaged neighborhoods than at other times when they were living in more advantaged neighborhoods. Da...

Recent scholarship points to a protective association between green space and birth outcomes as well a positive relationship between blue space and wellbeing. We add to this body of literature by exploring the relationship between expectant mothers' exposure to green and blue spaces and adverse birth outcomes in New York City. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the NYC Street Tr...

We consider a Morse function f and a Morse-Smale gradient-like vector field X on a compact connected oriented 3-manifold M such that f has only one critical point of index 3. Based on Laudenbach’s ideas [1], we will show that the flow of X can be isotoped into one so that the trajectory spaces of the new flow provide a stratification for M . We will construct ”natural” tubular neighborhoods abo...