Levi Wolf
Channel: Columbia GSAPP
Date: 2019-11-21

Finding the Fault Lines: Estimating the Boundaries in Urban Social-Spatial Inequality

11/19

A lecture by Levi Wolf, Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography at the University of Bristol

Segregation, sorting, and spatial social division is a common property of many cities. It emerges in many different urban systems and polarizes along different social axes throughout history. Integral to many theories of urban conflict in sociology and market formation in urban economics, understanding where and how social dividing lines develop is important to understand and explain the urban social structure. Recently-developed information-theoretic methods can help provide a better understanding of the spatial and social distribution dynamics underlying urban social change. This talk will discuss some of these methods, demonstrate their application to segregation and economic sorting in high-quality longitudinal demographic data.

Organized by Columbia GSAPP's Urban Planning Program as part of their Lecture in Planning Series.