C S Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 37861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C S Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | C S |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8415-0441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes and Segregation in a Suburban Black Enclave
This study investigated the relationship between school attendance zone boundary (AZB) changes and racial segregation in Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland, a diversifying, majority-Black suburban district outside Washington, DC. We found that the district's frequent and widespread elementary AZB changes since 1990 were largely segregative, especially as its court-ordered desegregation plan ended. Our findings reflect a district in…
Geography’s Role in Civic Engagement
Every ten years, following the census, the United States engages in electoral redistricting—the process of redrawing congressional, state, and local districts. Given legislative, political, and social repercussions, participation in redistricting is a powerful form of engaged scholarship and an opportunity for geographers to communicate directly with community members and policymakers and to demonstrate the power of geographic analysis. This arti…
What We Know and Don't Know About Eligible and Registered Voters in the United States
Accurate information on who is eligible to vote—and who is registered—is essential to voting rights enforcement, election reporting, and scholarship on political participation. Yet, the data used to measure eligibility and registration vary in important ways based on how the data were collected and for what purpose. This article compares three federal data sources on citizenship and voter registration, alongside state voter roll data aggregated b…
The role of noncontiguous attendance zones in shaping school populations
Noncontiguous school attendance zone boundaries (AZBs) have a unique, relatively uncommon shape that assign two or more non-adjacent residential areas to the same school. Given their ability to shape school enrollments by taking advantage of residential sorting, noncontiguous AZBs have historically been linked to explicit efforts to both segregate and desegregate schools. In this paper, we use a novel, longitudinal dataset of AZBs and descriptive…
Attendance zones in the suburbs
While suburban schools across the country have become increasingly racially and economically diverse in recent decades, many remain highly segregated. School attendance zone boundaries (AZBs) play a critical role in shaping these patterns of within-district segregation. AZBs are especially important in suburban areas with growing and diversifying student populations. Using novel, longitudinal AZB data dating back to 1990, authors Sarah Asson, Eri…
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes
We analyze the relationship between residential populations, school attendance zone boundaries (AZBs), and school enrollments in two large, countywide suburban districts, Fairfax County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1990 to 2010. A steep decline in white, school-age children and an increase in black, Hispanic, and Asian children in both neighborhoods and the schools that serve them suggests that white households reluctant to se…
Change in the Spatial Clustering of Poor Neighborhoods within U.S. Counties and Its Impact on Homicide
Recent scholarship has examined changes in the geographic distribution of poor persons in America, but it remains unclear whether high- and low- poverty neighborhoods have become more, or less, spatially clustered over the past several decades. Additionally, while many have argued that growth in both high-poverty spatial clusters and high-low poverty spatial clusters could yield conditions that are conducive to increases in homicide, previous res…
Bridging the gap between geographic concept and the data we have
A broad literature has made it clear that geographic units must be selected with care or they are likely to introduce error and uncertainty into results. Nevertheless, researchers often use data "off the shelf" with the implicit assumptions that their observations are consistent with the geographical concept relevant for their research question, and that they are of uniformly high quality in capturing this geographic identity. In this paper, we c…
Key assumptions in multiscale segregation measures
Multiscale segregation measures have the potential to increase understanding of residential context and ultimately a wide range of social and spatial processes. By examining segregation at multiple scales, we have the opportunity to study it as more than the outcome of a single process or a measure describing a single contextual effect. Multiscale segregation encourages us to look for sorting processes and contextual effects operating at differen…
Planning Dissonance” and the Bases for Stably Diverse Neighborhoods
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the rise of diverse neighborhoods in U.S. cities. Nevertheless, the theoretical frameworks we have for describing residential settlement patterns generally treat diversity as an unstable and transitory period that is the product of a unidirectional pressure towards segregation. In our analysis of six diverse neighborhoods in Southeast Seattle, we find evidence of processes at multiple scales that not …
Reassessing and Revising Commuting Zones for 2010
The Contributions of Places to Metropolitan Ethnoracial Diversity and Segregation
Although the trend toward greater ethnoracial diversity in the United States has been documented at a variety of geographic scales, most research tracks diversity one scale at a time. Our study bridges scales, asking how the diversity and segregation patterns of metropolitan areas are influenced by shifts in the racial/ethnic composition of their constituent places. Drawing on 1980–2010 decennial census data, we use a new visual tool to compare t…
Segregation as a multiscalar phenomenon and its implications for neighborhood-scale research
Neighborhoods and neighborhood change are often at least implicitly understood in relation to processes taking place at scales both smaller than and larger than the neighborhood itself. Until recently our capacity to represent these multi-scalar processes with quantitative measures has been limited. Recent work on "segregation profiles" by Reardon and collaborators (Reardon et al., 2008, 2009) expands our capacity to explore the relationship betw…
The Effects of Industrial Clusters on the Poverty Rate
Industrial clusters are widely understood as a worthwhile target of local economic development resources. Nevertheless, most of the work on cluster development has asserted benefits that accrue to a regional economy as a whole, with little or no focus on specific links between clusters and poverty alleviation. This article seeks to understand the degree to which economic clusters are associated with lower poverty rates. Specifically, using spatia…
Spatial Variations in US Poverty
Because poverty in rural and urban areas of the US often has different causes, correlates and solutions, effective anti-poverty policies depend on a thorough understanding of the ruralness or urbanness of specific places. This paper compares several widely used classification schemes and the varying magnitudes of poverty that they reveal in the US. The commonly used ‘metropolitan/non-metropolitan’ distinction obscures important socioeconomic diff…
Shared Skills
Economic development scholars and practitioners increasingly recognise the importance of both industry and occupational composition as sources of regional strength and specialisation. At the same time, occupational cluster analysis has paid insufficient attention to a main potential constituency of economic development: people in or near poverty. This article addresses this gap by developing 25 occupation clusters using a wide range of attributes…
Agents of Change
This article explores the effects of mixed-race household formation on trends in neighborhood-scale racial segregation. Census data show that these effects are nontrivial in relation to the magnitude of decadal changes in residential segregation. An agent-based model illustrates the potential long-run impacts of rising numbers of mixed-race households on measures of neighborhood-scale segregation. It reveals that high rates of mixed-race househol…
Finding equilibrium
This article proposes a version of the Core-Periphery model in which equilibrium is not assumed a priori, but may develop out of the choices of workers and firms. The research presented here finds that the assumption of general equilibrium present in the original model is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for systems to adjust to stable Nash Equilibria. This article introduces the idea of leakage to describe the minute inaccuracies i…
Taking geographical economics out of equilibrium
Journal Article Taking geographical economics out of equilibrium: implications for theory and policy Get access Christopher S. Fowler Christopher S. Fowler * * University of Washington, Department of Geography, Seattle, WA 98195-3550, USA. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 7, Issue 3, May 2007, Pages 265–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbm006 Published: 21 March 2…
Reexploring Transport Geography and Networks
After a meteoric rise to prominence in the 1990s, the practice of conceptualizing the relationships between places in terms of networks has recently come under fire within economic geography. Its critics claim that networks are 'fuzzy', 'anemic', and 'overendowed'. Others have criticized the network approach for its insensitivity to the way in which power is transmitted unevenly across networks. However, these are not necessarily failings of the …
Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens
Journal Article Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday Get access Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, 270 pp. Catherine Fowler Catherine Fowler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 105–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.1.105 Published: 01 March 1998
Some Observations On Theputative Fremont ”Presence” In Southern Idaho
Detailed attribute-oriented reanalysis of prehistoric coiled basketry from a series of rockshelters in southern Idaho affirms the probable presence of Fremont populations in that area as suggested by a variety of authorities. Additionally, a thorough comparison of the prehistoric Fremont basketry from the study area with ethnographic material indicates that there is absolutely no connection in the technology of basketry production between the Fre…
Segregation as a multiscalar phenomenon and its implications for neighborhood-scale research
Neighborhoods and neighborhood change are often at least implicitly understood in relation to processes taking place at scales both smaller than and larger than the neighborhood itself. Until recently our capacity to represent these multi-scalar processes with quantitative measures has been limited. Recent work on "segregation profiles" by Reardon and collaborators (Reardon et al., 2008, 2009) expands our capacity to explore the relationship betw…
Agents of Change
This article explores the effects of mixed-race household formation on trends in neighborhood-scale racial segregation. Census data show that these effects are nontrivial in relation to the magnitude of decadal changes in residential segregation. An agent-based model illustrates the potential long-run impacts of rising numbers of mixed-race households on measures of neighborhood-scale segregation. It reveals that high rates of mixed-race househol…
The Contributions of Places to Metropolitan Ethnoracial Diversity and Segregation
Although the trend toward greater ethnoracial diversity in the United States has been documented at a variety of geographic scales, most research tracks diversity one scale at a time. Our study bridges scales, asking how the diversity and segregation patterns of metropolitan areas are influenced by shifts in the racial/ethnic composition of their constituent places. Drawing on 1980–2010 decennial census data, we use a new visual tool to compare t…
Reassessing and Revising Commuting Zones for 2010
The Effects of Industrial Clusters on the Poverty Rate
Industrial clusters are widely understood as a worthwhile target of local economic development resources. Nevertheless, most of the work on cluster development has asserted benefits that accrue to a regional economy as a whole, with little or no focus on specific links between clusters and poverty alleviation. This article seeks to understand the degree to which economic clusters are associated with lower poverty rates. Specifically, using spatia…
Spatial Variations in US Poverty
Because poverty in rural and urban areas of the US often has different causes, correlates and solutions, effective anti-poverty policies depend on a thorough understanding of the ruralness or urbanness of specific places. This paper compares several widely used classification schemes and the varying magnitudes of poverty that they reveal in the US. The commonly used ‘metropolitan/non-metropolitan’ distinction obscures important socioeconomic diff…
Planning Dissonance” and the Bases for Stably Diverse Neighborhoods
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the rise of diverse neighborhoods in U.S. cities. Nevertheless, the theoretical frameworks we have for describing residential settlement patterns generally treat diversity as an unstable and transitory period that is the product of a unidirectional pressure towards segregation. In our analysis of six diverse neighborhoods in Southeast Seattle, we find evidence of processes at multiple scales that not …
Taking geographical economics out of equilibrium
Journal Article Taking geographical economics out of equilibrium: implications for theory and policy Get access Christopher S. Fowler Christopher S. Fowler * * University of Washington, Department of Geography, Seattle, WA 98195-3550, USA. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 7, Issue 3, May 2007, Pages 265–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbm006 Published: 21 March 2…
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes
We analyze the relationship between residential populations, school attendance zone boundaries (AZBs), and school enrollments in two large, countywide suburban districts, Fairfax County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1990 to 2010. A steep decline in white, school-age children and an increase in black, Hispanic, and Asian children in both neighborhoods and the schools that serve them suggests that white households reluctant to se…
Some Observations On Theputative Fremont ”Presence” In Southern Idaho
Detailed attribute-oriented reanalysis of prehistoric coiled basketry from a series of rockshelters in southern Idaho affirms the probable presence of Fremont populations in that area as suggested by a variety of authorities. Additionally, a thorough comparison of the prehistoric Fremont basketry from the study area with ethnographic material indicates that there is absolutely no connection in the technology of basketry production between the Fre…
Finding equilibrium
This article proposes a version of the Core-Periphery model in which equilibrium is not assumed a priori, but may develop out of the choices of workers and firms. The research presented here finds that the assumption of general equilibrium present in the original model is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for systems to adjust to stable Nash Equilibria. This article introduces the idea of leakage to describe the minute inaccuracies i…
Reexploring Transport Geography and Networks
After a meteoric rise to prominence in the 1990s, the practice of conceptualizing the relationships between places in terms of networks has recently come under fire within economic geography. Its critics claim that networks are 'fuzzy', 'anemic', and 'overendowed'. Others have criticized the network approach for its insensitivity to the way in which power is transmitted unevenly across networks. However, these are not necessarily failings of the …
Change in the Spatial Clustering of Poor Neighborhoods within U.S. Counties and Its Impact on Homicide
Recent scholarship has examined changes in the geographic distribution of poor persons in America, but it remains unclear whether high- and low- poverty neighborhoods have become more, or less, spatially clustered over the past several decades. Additionally, while many have argued that growth in both high-poverty spatial clusters and high-low poverty spatial clusters could yield conditions that are conducive to increases in homicide, previous res…
Bridging the gap between geographic concept and the data we have
A broad literature has made it clear that geographic units must be selected with care or they are likely to introduce error and uncertainty into results. Nevertheless, researchers often use data "off the shelf" with the implicit assumptions that their observations are consistent with the geographical concept relevant for their research question, and that they are of uniformly high quality in capturing this geographic identity. In this paper, we c…
Shared Skills
Economic development scholars and practitioners increasingly recognise the importance of both industry and occupational composition as sources of regional strength and specialisation. At the same time, occupational cluster analysis has paid insufficient attention to a main potential constituency of economic development: people in or near poverty. This article addresses this gap by developing 25 occupation clusters using a wide range of attributes…
Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens
Journal Article Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday Get access Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, 270 pp. Catherine Fowler Catherine Fowler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 105–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.1.105 Published: 01 March 1998
Some Observations On Theputative Fremont ”Presence” In Southern Idaho
Detailed attribute-oriented reanalysis of prehistoric coiled basketry from a series of rockshelters in southern Idaho affirms the probable presence of Fremont populations in that area as suggested by a variety of authorities. Additionally, a thorough comparison of the prehistoric Fremont basketry from the study area with ethnographic material indicates that there is absolutely no connection in the technology of basketry production between the Fre…
Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens
Journal Article Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday Get access Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, 270 pp. Catherine Fowler Catherine Fowler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 105–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.1.105 Published: 01 March 1998
Reexploring Transport Geography and Networks
After a meteoric rise to prominence in the 1990s, the practice of conceptualizing the relationships between places in terms of networks has recently come under fire within economic geography. Its critics claim that networks are 'fuzzy', 'anemic', and 'overendowed'. Others have criticized the network approach for its insensitivity to the way in which power is transmitted unevenly across networks. However, these are not necessarily failings of the …
Taking geographical economics out of equilibrium
Journal Article Taking geographical economics out of equilibrium: implications for theory and policy Get access Christopher S. Fowler Christopher S. Fowler * * University of Washington, Department of Geography, Seattle, WA 98195-3550, USA. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 7, Issue 3, May 2007, Pages 265–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbm006 Published: 21 March 2…
Finding equilibrium
This article proposes a version of the Core-Periphery model in which equilibrium is not assumed a priori, but may develop out of the choices of workers and firms. The research presented here finds that the assumption of general equilibrium present in the original model is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for systems to adjust to stable Nash Equilibria. This article introduces the idea of leakage to describe the minute inaccuracies i…
Spatial Variations in US Poverty
Because poverty in rural and urban areas of the US often has different causes, correlates and solutions, effective anti-poverty policies depend on a thorough understanding of the ruralness or urbanness of specific places. This paper compares several widely used classification schemes and the varying magnitudes of poverty that they reveal in the US. The commonly used ‘metropolitan/non-metropolitan’ distinction obscures important socioeconomic diff…
Shared Skills
Economic development scholars and practitioners increasingly recognise the importance of both industry and occupational composition as sources of regional strength and specialisation. At the same time, occupational cluster analysis has paid insufficient attention to a main potential constituency of economic development: people in or near poverty. This article addresses this gap by developing 25 occupation clusters using a wide range of attributes…
Agents of Change
This article explores the effects of mixed-race household formation on trends in neighborhood-scale racial segregation. Census data show that these effects are nontrivial in relation to the magnitude of decadal changes in residential segregation. An agent-based model illustrates the potential long-run impacts of rising numbers of mixed-race households on measures of neighborhood-scale segregation. It reveals that high rates of mixed-race househol…
The Effects of Industrial Clusters on the Poverty Rate
Industrial clusters are widely understood as a worthwhile target of local economic development resources. Nevertheless, most of the work on cluster development has asserted benefits that accrue to a regional economy as a whole, with little or no focus on specific links between clusters and poverty alleviation. This article seeks to understand the degree to which economic clusters are associated with lower poverty rates. Specifically, using spatia…
Segregation as a multiscalar phenomenon and its implications for neighborhood-scale research
Neighborhoods and neighborhood change are often at least implicitly understood in relation to processes taking place at scales both smaller than and larger than the neighborhood itself. Until recently our capacity to represent these multi-scalar processes with quantitative measures has been limited. Recent work on "segregation profiles" by Reardon and collaborators (Reardon et al., 2008, 2009) expands our capacity to explore the relationship betw…
Reassessing and Revising Commuting Zones for 2010
The Contributions of Places to Metropolitan Ethnoracial Diversity and Segregation
Although the trend toward greater ethnoracial diversity in the United States has been documented at a variety of geographic scales, most research tracks diversity one scale at a time. Our study bridges scales, asking how the diversity and segregation patterns of metropolitan areas are influenced by shifts in the racial/ethnic composition of their constituent places. Drawing on 1980–2010 decennial census data, we use a new visual tool to compare t…
Planning Dissonance” and the Bases for Stably Diverse Neighborhoods
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the rise of diverse neighborhoods in U.S. cities. Nevertheless, the theoretical frameworks we have for describing residential settlement patterns generally treat diversity as an unstable and transitory period that is the product of a unidirectional pressure towards segregation. In our analysis of six diverse neighborhoods in Southeast Seattle, we find evidence of processes at multiple scales that not …
Key assumptions in multiscale segregation measures
Multiscale segregation measures have the potential to increase understanding of residential context and ultimately a wide range of social and spatial processes. By examining segregation at multiple scales, we have the opportunity to study it as more than the outcome of a single process or a measure describing a single contextual effect. Multiscale segregation encourages us to look for sorting processes and contextual effects operating at differen…
Bridging the gap between geographic concept and the data we have
A broad literature has made it clear that geographic units must be selected with care or they are likely to introduce error and uncertainty into results. Nevertheless, researchers often use data "off the shelf" with the implicit assumptions that their observations are consistent with the geographical concept relevant for their research question, and that they are of uniformly high quality in capturing this geographic identity. In this paper, we c…
Change in the Spatial Clustering of Poor Neighborhoods within U.S. Counties and Its Impact on Homicide
Recent scholarship has examined changes in the geographic distribution of poor persons in America, but it remains unclear whether high- and low- poverty neighborhoods have become more, or less, spatially clustered over the past several decades. Additionally, while many have argued that growth in both high-poverty spatial clusters and high-low poverty spatial clusters could yield conditions that are conducive to increases in homicide, previous res…
Attendance zones in the suburbs
While suburban schools across the country have become increasingly racially and economically diverse in recent decades, many remain highly segregated. School attendance zone boundaries (AZBs) play a critical role in shaping these patterns of within-district segregation. AZBs are especially important in suburban areas with growing and diversifying student populations. Using novel, longitudinal AZB data dating back to 1990, authors Sarah Asson, Eri…
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes
We analyze the relationship between residential populations, school attendance zone boundaries (AZBs), and school enrollments in two large, countywide suburban districts, Fairfax County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1990 to 2010. A steep decline in white, school-age children and an increase in black, Hispanic, and Asian children in both neighborhoods and the schools that serve them suggests that white households reluctant to se…
The role of noncontiguous attendance zones in shaping school populations
Noncontiguous school attendance zone boundaries (AZBs) have a unique, relatively uncommon shape that assign two or more non-adjacent residential areas to the same school. Given their ability to shape school enrollments by taking advantage of residential sorting, noncontiguous AZBs have historically been linked to explicit efforts to both segregate and desegregate schools. In this paper, we use a novel, longitudinal dataset of AZBs and descriptive…
What We Know and Don't Know About Eligible and Registered Voters in the United States
Accurate information on who is eligible to vote—and who is registered—is essential to voting rights enforcement, election reporting, and scholarship on political participation. Yet, the data used to measure eligibility and registration vary in important ways based on how the data were collected and for what purpose. This article compares three federal data sources on citizenship and voter registration, alongside state voter roll data aggregated b…
School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes and Segregation in a Suburban Black Enclave
This study investigated the relationship between school attendance zone boundary (AZB) changes and racial segregation in Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland, a diversifying, majority-Black suburban district outside Washington, DC. We found that the district's frequent and widespread elementary AZB changes since 1990 were largely segregative, especially as its court-ordered desegregation plan ended. Our findings reflect a district in…
Geography’s Role in Civic Engagement
Every ten years, following the census, the United States engages in electoral redistricting—the process of redrawing congressional, state, and local districts. Given legislative, political, and social repercussions, participation in redistricting is a powerful form of engaged scholarship and an opportunity for geographers to communicate directly with community members and policymakers and to demonstrate the power of geographic analysis. This arti…
Geography (14 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)