Ethnic and Class Clustering through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Urban Neighbourhood Social Patterns

York, Abigail M.; Smith, Michael E.; Stanley, Benjamin W.; Stark, Barbara; Novic, Juliana; Harlan, Sharon L.; Cowgill, George L.; Boone, Christopher G.

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“…A related domain is segregation theory, which focuses on explaining patterns of racial segregation in modern cities (Briggs 2005;Marcuse and van Kempen 2002;Sampson 2009). An empirical and conceptual expansion of this topic to focus on variation in the spatial clustering of ethnicity and class in cities across time and space has potential for archaeological application (York et al 2010).…”

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Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists

Smith

2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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I review several bodies of empirical urban theory relevant to the archaeological analysis of ancient cities. Empirical theory is a type of "middlerange theory" (following Robert Merton): sets of concepts and methods that are less abstract, and have greater empirical content, than high-level social theory. The categories of theory reviewed here include environment-behavior theory, architectural communication theory, space syntax, urban morphology, reception theory, generative planning theory, normative theory, and city size theory. Most of these approaches originated in the fields of architecture, planning, and geography, and they directly link the urban-built environment to the actions of people within cities.Keywords Urbanism . Theory . Planning . Middle-range theory . Built environment Archaeological research on ancient cities and urbanism exhibits a wide range of perspectives on the use of theory. Some archaeologists pursue descriptive research with little explicit use of theory, while others embrace high-level social theory. Still others chart a course between these poles by using lower-level concepts. Work in this latter category is more abstract than empirical description but more grounded and less abstract than high-level social theory. I call this body of work "empirical urban theory," and in this paper I argue that this is an especially productive explanatory approach for understanding ancient cities and urban life. In defining "theory" I follow anthropologist Roy Ellen, who states that theories, provide us with a framework through which we can explain and interpret data, and they should do so parsimoniously. So, we might define theory as 'A supposition or body of suppositions designed to explain phenomena or data' (Ellen 2010: 390).

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Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists

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2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…Now that we have archaeological evidence of early human communities, the origins and outcomes of village life seem more complicated than the generalizations of social philosophy (4). The contemporary urban villages discussed by planners (3,5) owe little to ancient village organization and are better seen as rather typical urban neighborhoods as found throughout history (6).…”

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Archaeology as a social science

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Because of advances in methods and theory, archaeology now addresses issues central to debates in the social sciences in a far more sophisticated manner than ever before. Coupled with methodological innovations, multiscalar archaeological studies around the world have produced a wealth of new data that provide a unique perspective on long-term changes in human societies, as they document variation in human behavior and institutions before the modern era. We illustrate these points with three examples: changes in human settlements, the roles of markets and states in deep history, and changes in standards of living. Alternative pathways toward complexity suggest how common processes may operate under contrasting ecologies, populations, and economic integration.anthropology | cultural evolution | economics | sociology | political science

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“…York et al (2011), is concerned with a central issue in housing economics (both from neoclassical and social interactions perspectives) -segregation and clustering -but set in a long-run historical context, the value of which was stressed in the last section. The authors argue that their work 'combines elements of systematic and intensive strategies of comparison'.…”

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Spatial housing economics: A survey

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2016

Urban Studies

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This introduction to the virtual special issue surveys the development of spatial housing economics from its roots in neoclassical theory, through more recent developments in social interactions modelling, and touching on the role of institutions, path dependence and economic history. The survey also points to some of the more promising future directions for the subject that are beginning to appear in the literature. The survey covers elements of hedonic models, spatial econometrics, neighbourhood models, housing market areas, housing supply, models of segregation, migration, housing tenure, subnational house price modelling including the so-called ripple effect, and agent-based models. Possible future directions are set in the context of a selection of recent papers that have appeared in Urban Studies. Nevertheless, there are still important gaps in the literature that merit further attention, arising at least partly from emerging policy problems. These include more research on housing and biodiversity, the relationship between housing and civil unrest, the effects of changing age distributions -notably housing for the elderly -and the impact of different international institutional structures. Methodologically, developments in Big Data provide an exciting framework for future work.

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Ethnic and Class Clustering through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Urban Neighbourhood Social Patterns

Cited by 57 publications

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Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists

Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists

Archaeology as a social science

Spatial housing economics: A survey

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