Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)
American Communities Project
Project Components
The American Communities Project includes studies based on both contemporary and historical data. It also includes research on public schools, especially school segregation and racial disparities in school performance.
- The Urban Transition HGIS is developing mapped data on U.S. cities and neighborhoods in the decades 1880-1940.
- Diversity and Disparities presents contemporary census data on neighborhoods and metropolitan areas. It includes material that was originally supported by the US2010 Project. These include MapUSA (census maps for 1940-2010) and the LTDB (which harmonizes census data from 1970-2000 to 2010 tract boundaries). Its "Data" pages provide measures of segregation and inequality across neighborhoods for many cities, counties, and metro areas.
- A separate project deals with the history of segregation and inequality in US Schools, with a mapping system that identifies school district characteristics and provides information on individual public schools.
- Finally there is the Hurricane Katrina project, which examines the impacts of this one hurricane on New Orleans and the 50-year history of hurricanes along the entire Gulf Coast.
The Urban Transition HGIS Project, organized by John Logan, explores city development in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century.
Diversity and Disparities is a compendium of projects that offers data and reports on urban inequalities and residential segregation in the period 1940 through the present and also examines trends in school segregation.
US Schools is devoted to studies of school segregation and educational disparities in the decades since the Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
The Hurricane Katrina Project examines the impacts of hurricanes on the Gulf Coast.
Project Team
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John R Logan
Professor of Sociology