On Apr 21, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Andy F wrote:
> The comparison to Chicago (which has a reputation even among Mass-ians
> as being more "down-to-earth") is that neighborhoods seem more
> economically integrated around Boston, and have a higher "granularity"
> than in Chicago, where you have relatively huge swaths that seem one
> or the other. That is, there is more geographical isolation of
> culture there.
Racially/ethnically, Chicago is more segregated than Boston <http:// www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/housing_patterns/papertoc.html>. New York is very segregated too.
Doug