 The changing ethno-racial profile of ‘very walkable’ urban neighbourhoods in the US (2010–2020): Are minorities under-represented?Bradley Bereitschaft Urban Studies, 2023, vol. 60, issue 4, 638-654 Abstract: Neighbourhood walkability has increasingly been viewed as an amenity that may confer substantial health, social and economic benefits. As walkable neighbourhoods become increasingly desirable, there is concern that disadvantaged groups – particularly lower-income and minority households – may be displaced or excluded from these spaces. This investigation assesses whether minorities, and Black residents in particular, are increasingly under-represented in urban neighbourhoods with high walkability by examining demographic changes between 2010 and 2020 across approximately 43,000 urban census tracts. The results suggest a negative association between Black and ‘other’ non-White residents and neighbourhood walkability when controlling for confounding factors. Blacks were also the only major ethno-racial group to decline in absolute number within the nation’s most walkable (i.e. Walk Score ® ≥90) urban neighbourhoods between 2010 and 2020. Implications for social equity and justice are discussed. Keywords: ethno-racial; neighbourhood change; neighbourhood walkability; walkability; walk score; æ°‘æ— -ç§ æ—; è¡—åŒºå ˜åŒ–; è¡—åŒºå ¯æ¥è¡Œæ€§; å ¯æ¥è¡Œæ€§; å ¯æ¥è¡Œè¯„分 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:60:y:2023:i:4:p:638-654 DOI: 10.1177/00420980221110829 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Urban Studies from Urban Studies Journal Limited |
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