Collaborative Research: on Race and Rust Belt Revitalization--What Determines Who Lives Where?

成功的振兴努力正在改变美国的城市，在铁锈地带的大都市尤为紧迫。经济变化和移民正在重新安排芝加哥和底特律等地的住房和劳动力市场。老社区被重新开发，新的共管公寓建在市中心附近，而郊区的环线仍在继续扩大。但像大多数大都市一样，它们仍然被种族和城市-郊区经济地位的巨大差异所分裂。振兴是会加剧种族两极分化，还是会将其降至最低？该项目使用芝加哥和底特律的全面和创新的面对面调查，以解决正在进行的关于住宅隔离的问题和辩论。收集的数据将检验关于种族本身、种族态度和其他因素如何影响居民区流动的三个步骤--搬家决定、搜索过程和选择最理想的替代方案--的社区隔离的具体假设。此外，由于人们对新移民的居住选择知之甚少，也不知道白人和非裔美国人回家的人是否会受到未来社区中移民的影响，因此在芝加哥，以及在资源允许的情况下，底特律的西语裔社区将被过度抽样。几项方法创新将提高数据质量。例如，计算机辅助访谈将允许更精确地衡量社区种族构成的净影响，而不依赖于社区评估的其他特征。更广泛的影响：该项目本身将是两所大学研究生培训的一个组成部分，通过调查方法的实践课程，让学生参与研究过程的所有阶段。研究团队本身是多样化的，在过去，关于这一主题的实践吸引了来自代表性不足群体的许多学生和助教。这项研究的主题对更广泛的社会具有广泛的影响，因为城市政策和移民无疑将是未来几十年国内议程的首要议题。调查受访者将收到一份结果报告；将撰写一本易于阅读的书，描述振兴铁锈带大都市的后果；将举行一次会议，展示结果，对象将是社区领袖、城市规划者、公平住房活动家和政治官员。此外，这些方法的创新将吸引那些有兴趣使用调查方法来阐明广泛科学学科中复杂和社会敏感问题的人。

Successful revitalization efforts are transforming urban America and have special urgency in Rust Belt metropolises. Economic changes and immigration are rearranging the housing and labor markets in locations such as Chicago and Detroit. Older neighborhoods are redeveloped, new condos are built near downtown while the suburban ring continues to grow. But like most metropolises, they remain divided by race and by huge city-suburban differences in economic status. Will revitalization exacerbate racial polarization or minimize it? This project uses comprehensive and innovative face-to-face surveys in Chicago and Detroit to address ongoing questions and debates about residential segregation. The data gathered will test specific hypotheses about how race itself, racial attitudes, and other factors influence neighborhood segregation on the three steps of residential mobility: the decision to move, the search process, and the selection of the most desirable alternative. In addition, because little is known about the residential choices of recent immigrants and whether white and African-American homeseekers are influenced by the presence of immigrants in a prospective neighborhood, Hispanic neighborhoods will be oversampled in Chicago and, if resources permit, in Detroit. Several methodological innovations will improve the quality of data. For example, computer assisted interviewing will allow a more precise measure of the net effects of neighborhood racial composition independent of other characteristics on neighborhood evaluations. Broader Impacts: The project itself will be an integral part of graduate training at both universities through practicum courses in survey methods that will involve students in all stages of the research process. The research team itself is diverse, and, in the past, practica on this topic have attracted numerous students and teaching assistants from underrepresented groups. The topic of the study has broad implications for society more generally, as undoubtedly urban policies and immigration will be toward the top of the domestic agenda in coming decades. Survey respondents will receive a report of the results; a highly accessible book describing the consequences of revitalization for Rust Belt metropolises will be written; and a conference at which the results will be presented will target community leaders, urban planners, fair housing activists, and political officials. In addition, the methodological innovations will appeal to those interested in using survey methods to shed light on complex and socially sensitive issues across a wide range of scientific disciplines.