Chicago’s Growing Income Donut
Oh, the backlog of things I want to write! To work: Other than “oy,” one of the most common reactions I got to the “vanishing middle class” maps I made several months ago was that focusing on the city...
View ArticleThe new asymmetry of segregation
A while ago, in one of his dumber moments, the urban economist Ed Glaeser wrote a report for the Manhattan Institute called “The End of the Segregated Century.” The headline came from the finding that...
View ArticleGentrification and the Wealth Gap
The Washington Post A bit ago, I wrote about how conversations about neighborhood change often paper over very real conflicts of interest among members of “The Community”: A very common refrain in...
View ArticlePower and Interests
A few days ago, Pete Saunders wrote a post on “gentrification management”: I’ve come to the belief that gentrification can be managed. Its benefits can be harnessed; its costs can be mitigated…. Some...
View ArticleThe changing rules of segregation in Chicago: or, a Chinatown grows in...
NPR’s Code Switch A letter published last summer in the Chicago Tribune asked for a second look: “When you see us coming, you might hurry and get in your car and lock your door. Then speed through...
View ArticleThe Past*
I’m chest-deep in schoolwork this week, but I thought I’d leave a few scraps here from a 1960 issue of Ebony magazine that I’m working into a paper. See the rest here.
View ArticleThe Riots
Actually, given what’s going on in Baltimore right now – and the narratives it’s being fit into in a lot of places – I think I’ll republish an excerpt of a post I wrote back in 2013, before I really...
View ArticleHow we measure segregation depends on why we care
Over at City Observatory, I have a post riffing on recent posts by Nate Silver and the New York Times’ Upshot on segregation and the reproduction of inequality: That is, it’s easier to send black...
View ArticleBaltimore’s problems belong to 2015, not 1968
I have a new post at City Observatory: Look what the riots did to Baltimore! Oh wait no…These were taken before the riots. Oops. @MayorSRB pic.twitter.com/2iTsnVDf6G — Chels (@BEautifully_C) April 30,...
View ArticleDisparate Impact
So I’ve gotten some pushback on the last post in the comments. One of the main objections is that “bigot” is an inflammatory and unhelpful word. That’s probably true, and had I been at that meeting, I...
View ArticleOne of Chicago’s most important trends is flying under the radar
Chicago is a city obsessed with neighborhoods, neighborhood boundaries, and neighborhood character, and therefore with neighborhood change. Demographic trends, from the rapidly declining black...
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