Substandard Urban Housing in United States

A Quantitative Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID4042948
AuthorsGeorge W Hartman, John C Hook
Year1956
Volume32
Issue2
Pages95
Publication date1956-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/141981
OpenAlexW2329645268
LanguageEN
Citations received7

fT has been established by American geographers today that the urban I geographer concerns himself with a study of the spatial characteristics of urban phenomena.' Geographic studies of this type usually involve the use of two separate but related types of analysis. The first type deals primarily with the description of the areal arrangement of individual phenomenon; the second involves a comparative study of the similarities or dissimilarities of the individual distributions. The latter is by nature the more complex since it involves analysis of two or more distributions that may or may not be associated. The most common comparative technique of study of the past has been the use of visual comparison of a series of maps, perhaps as translucent overlays, each of which shows only the distribution of one type of data. More recently, however, a second technique has been gaining favor--that of the use of certain statistical procedures that are applicable to testing spatial associations. Most urban phenomena in the modern world are exceedingly complex in their associations and interrelationships, so that it is necessary for the geographer to limit himself at any one time to an examination of a limited number of variables that have possible associations. The procedural steps in a quantitative investigation under such a limitation at this level of investigation involve the statement of a problem, the formulation of a series of hypotheses to be tested, and the use of established statistical tests to determine the adequacy of the hypotheses as related to the stated problem. The broad problem to be investigated in the study which follows is concerned with certain geographic considerations of the relative proportion of substandard housing in American cities. More specifically, three questions are posed: (1) what is the nature of the variations in the proportion of substandard housing of the 1262 cities in the United States with populations of 10,000 or more (1950 census)? (2) how are the variations in the proportion of substandard housing areally distributed in the United States? (3) what is the nature of the areal variations of possibly associated phenomena? 'H. NI. Mayer: Urban Geographye in American Geography, Inventory and Prospect, P. E. James and C. F. Jones, Eds., 1954, p. 143

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