>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.
that link was down. in the meantime, i found this too:
http://diversitydata.sph.harvard.edu/index.jsp
interesting. the city where i'm living and working, now, has about a 26% white population. i told andie offlist that i thought it was more like some 40odd % or so.
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