A geographic perspective on intra-urban racial/ethnic diversity, segregation, and clustering in Knoxville, Tennessee: 1990–2000

The changing South! An examination of residential intermixing and neighbourhood contexts in Knoxville, Tennessee

“…A new focus on the dispersal of immigrants/diversity towards non‐metropolitan/rural areas was noted in Lichter et al (). Some recent works on intra‐urban changing mosaics include Lobo et al (), Chung and Brown (), Sharma (, ), and Sharma and Brown (). More recently, a new group of scholars have focused on the southern states/cities such as Atiles and Bohon (), Neal and Bohon (), Smith and Furuseth (2004), Cobb (), Stamps and Bohon (), Winders (, , ), McDaniel and Drever (), Perreira (), Sharma (, , ), Heavey ().…”

Between Friends and Strangers: Micro–Segregation in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem

“…Disaggregated data enable direct estimation of the relationships between households and neighbors in the same and neighboring buildings. Standard measures of segregation, such as the Dissimilarity Index (Rey and Folch 2011; Sharma 2012), employ data that are aggregated over the units of a predefined, usually administrative, partition of the area. That aggregated view of space does not allow us, however, to account for the spatial adjacency of the householders of different sects at the resolution of buildings or apartments.…”

Diversified Housing Developments for Socio-Economic Integration in South Africa’s Urban Human Settlements

“…In reaction to the continuous challenges posed by the past social and spatial segregation in current towns and cities, there has been an increasing call for greater socio-spatial integration and mix in housing developments and neighbourhoods in recent years (Ge & Hokao, 2006;Jacobs & Appleyard, 2007;Putnam, 2007;Talen, 2008;Denisova, Eller, Frye & Zhuravskaya, 2012;Sharma, 2012;G decki, 2014). The socio-spatial integration is especially the case in South Africa, where fragmentation remains a major challenge within towns and cities (Christopher, 2004;Todes, Karam, Klug & Malaza, 2010;Musakwa & Van Niekerk, 2013;Kovács & Heged s, 2014).…”

“…• Through mixed developments and land-uses, housing developments diversity reduces racial and ethnic segregation (Bickford-Smith, 1995;Freund, 2001;Lima, 2001;Charles, 2003;Christopher, 2004;Bailey et al, 2006;Donaldson & Kotze, 2006;Alraouf, 2012;Sharma, 2012;Gauvin et al, 2013;Ramoroka, 2013aRamoroka, , 2013bRamoroka, , 2013cG decki, 2014;Smigiel, 2014). People from different racial and ethnic groups are now able to share residential spaces within towns and cities.…”

“…South Africa's towns and cities have, since 1994, experienced varying degrees of socio-spatial transformation, which necessitates a reconsideration of the current status quo and the levels of diversity and integration or lack thereof in urban areas (Todes, Karam, Klug & Malaza, 2010;Musakwa & Van Niekerk, 2013;Güzey, 2014). It is argued that socially and spatially mixed developments and neighbourhoods can support place diversity and contribute to safer and more sustainable human settlements (Ge & Hokao, 2006;Jacobs & Appleyard, 2007;Putnam, 2007;Talen, 2008;Denisova et al, 2012;Sharma, 2012;Smigiel, 2014). One of the most significant factors changing the urban landscape in South Africa has been the increase of townhouse complexes or sectional title schemes.…”