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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of economic and racial disparity between neighborhoods. Census evidence is cited to make a causal argument. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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no doubt complex, one interesting perspective on the matter involves looking at demographic data at the neighborhood level. Based on the argument that neighborhoods, within themselves, tend to reflect a
certain characteristic distribution of income, security, and racial makeup, neighborhoods often reveal tendencies and trends in the distribution of resources, especially as it relates to the relative prosperity of citizens
within a particular neighborhood. This paper will explore disparities between the neighborhoods of Harlem and Hunters in New York City, to argue the determining impact of census collection methods in
affecting the accurate distribution of resources and resulting "character" of a neighborhood at the demographic level. In this way, such misappropriation of resources tends to cyclically reinforce the disparity, such
that poor neighborhoods get poorer and rich neighborhoods get richer. This paragraph helps the student form the basis of the argumentative aspect of the paper. There are many different
paradigms through which the unit of the neighborhood can be meaningfully viewed, but the most accessible and measurable through demographic data is the material perspective. Thinker Kevin Lynch uses such
a perspective when he defines and categorizes the elements that make up neighborhoods and comes largely to the conclusion that the relative prosperity of neighborhoods is dependent upon the access
to public resources available to people in those neighborhoods (through city design, proximity to public institutions, and other such resources) (Lynch 1960). The resources that are distributed to communities is
not a fixed variable, however; in fact, it is determined to a great extent by census data. However, as per ongoing controversies, census collection methods may artificially deepen the material
disparity between neighborhoods through adjusting for movement trends and favoring those neighborhoods with an influx of new residents at the expense of neighborhoods that have tended to lose residents (Anderson
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