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Title: Developing GIS Maps for U.S. Cities in 1930 and 1940

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Urban historians and historical geographers have a long tradition of mapping demographic data to study residential patterns, the assimilation or segregation of immigrants and minorities, and processes of neighborhood change, despite the difficulty of working from printed or microfilm copies of city directories and census manuscripts and drawing maps by hand. Dubois’ study of Philadelphia was one of the earliest research of this type, including a detailed survey of the predominantly black Seventh Ward to depict the patchwork of poorer and more well-to-do blocks [1]. The early Chicago School sociologists used census data and data from many other sources to map the social characteristics of Chicago neighborhoods in the 1920s and 1930s. Radford (1976) plotted locations of black and white residents in 1880 in Charleston, distinguishing between those residing on streets, in backyards, and on alleys [2]. Rabinowitz (1978) mapped the streets block by block in four Southern cities to show the degree of racial segregation [3]. Groves and Muller (1975) similarly studied black residential concentrations in post-bellum Washington, DC [4]. Others have focused on white ethnic residential patterns in cities such as New York [5] and Detroit [6].

Url: https://s4.ad.brown.edu/Projects/UTP2/HGISDoc/Logan and Zhang 1940.pdf

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Authors: Logan, John; Zhang, Weiwei

Publisher: Brown University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography

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