Spatial Concentration of African Americans in Large Metropolitan Areas of the United States
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556620050040
Abstract
The structure of settlement pattern of African Americans in three large United States’ urban agglomerationsAtlanta, Chicago, and New York–was analyzed. The neighborhood of territorial cells (census tracts) was considered. Original method of spatial correlation analysis based on two variables (the number and the share of African Americans) was used. The problem of cartographic distortions related to disproportions of population density was solved. Key features of structure of African Americans’ settlement pattern in urban agglomerations were revealed. The level of concentration is higher in core cities, but in Atlanta the difference is not very big. Areas of concentration tend to be continual over core city borders. Specific structure of African Americans’ settlement pattern was formed in each city. In Atlanta, the structure is monocentric, in Chicago it is quasi-monocentric, and in New York it is polycentric.
About the Author
I. N. Alov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Faculty of Geography
Moscow
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Alov I.N. Spatial Concentration of African Americans in Large Metropolitan Areas of the United States. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2020;84(5):694–703. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556620050040
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