Racialized Topographies
Altitude and Race in Southern Cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4486536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Ueland, Barney Warf (0000-0002-4681-5286) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50-78 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2006.tb00387.x |
| OpenAlex | W1993125984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 102 |
This study examines altitudinal residential segregation by race in 146 cities in the U.S. South. It begins by embedding the topic in recent theorizations of the social construction of nature, the geography of race, and environmental justice. Second, it focuses on how housing markets, particularly in the South, tend to segregate minorities in low‐lying, flood‐prone, and amenity‐poor segments of urban areas. It tests empirically the hypothesis that blacks are disproportionately concentrated in lower‐altitude areas using gis to correlate race and elevation by digital elevation‐model block group within each city in 1990 and 2000. The statistical results confirm the suspected trend. A map of coefficients indicates strong positive associations in cities in the interior South‐where the hypothesis is confirmed‐and an inverse relationship near the coast, where whites dominate higher‐valued coastal properties. Selected city case studies demonstrate these relationships connecting the broad dynamics of racial segregation to the particularities of individual places
Altitude (triangle · Amenity · Economic geography · Elevation (ballistics · Environmental justice · Geography · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Demography · Ecology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Gender Studies · Urban Green Space and Health · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Mapping urban risk
Social and Spatial Inequities in Exposure to Flood Risk in Miami, Florida
Environmental injustice and Hurricane Harvey
Flood exposure and social vulnerability in the United States
The Work of Southering
Slow violence to disasters
Social and environmental justice implications of flood-related road closures in Virginia
Buyouts in the Carolinas
Under-reported and under-served
Leveraging critical race theory to produce equitable climate change adaptation
Study of Elevation Role in Representing Sociodemographic Status and Susceptibility to Flooding in Birmingham, Alabama
Augmenting the Social Vulnerability Index using an agent-based simulation of Hurricane Harvey
Path towards community resilience
Through the Lens of Katrina
Integrating social and ecological considerations in floodplain relocation and restoration programs
Historical waterscape trajectories that need care
Assessing the environmental justice consequences of flood risk
Social inequalities in flooding inside and outside of floodplains during Hurricane Harvey
Moving from total risk to community-based risk trajectories increases transparency and equity in flood risk mitigation planning along urban rivers
Food Insecurity in the Post-Hurricane Harvey Setting
Severe flooding and cause-specific hospitalisation among older adults in the USA
Neighborhood change during managed retreat
Environmental justice implications of flood risk in the contiguous United States – a spatiotemporal assessment of flood exposure change from 2001 to 2019
Examining relationships between traditional vulnerability data proxies and hurricane risk perception indicators
Environmental Justice and Stream Restoration
Like you can tell a river where to go”
Modeling multiscalar influences on natural hazards vulnerability
Why majority-minority cities form
Shrinking New Orleans
Flood risk, vulnerability and environmental justice
The social correlates of flood risk
Exploring the Environmental Justice Implications of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Greater Houston, Texas
Flooding, Sociospatial Risk, and Population Health
Flood Risk as Legacy Vulnerability
The evolution of race and place in geographies of risk and resilience
Posted
Emancipatory catastrophism
Racial hydrologies
The Hilliness of U.S. Cities
Flooding the Vote
Recognizing flood exposure inequities across flood frequencies
Residential Patterns in the Pre-Automotive American City
The Housing Market and Population Vulnerabilities
Hills as Resources and Resistances In Syracuse, New York
Separate But Equal? Desegregating Baltimore's Golf Courses
Black Towns and (Legal) Marronage
Constructions of race, place and nation
Negroes in cities
Interpretations of calamity from the viewpoint of human ecology
American apartheid
Making whiteness
The bubbling cauldron
American Apartheid
Social Justice and the City
Uneven Development
Geography and social justice
The Chicago school of sociology
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Human ecology
Crabgrass Frontier
The Truly Disadvantaged
New models in geography
The Space That Race Makes
Class Stucture and Economic Development in the American South, 1865-1955
The Separate City
Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards
Race and Racism
Disasters by Design
Ecology of Fear
Power, Nature, and the City. The Conquest of Water and the Political Ecology of Urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Residential segregation in American cities
A Critical Review of the Methodology of Environmental Racism Research
Beyond dualism – the social construction of nature and the natural and social construction of human beings
Vulnerability to environmental hazards
Race, class and environmental justice
Bringing Hypsography Back In
The Other Burgess Model
An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Los Angeles
Black Suburbanization
Valuing localized externalities
Structural Imperatives Behind Racial Change in Birmingham, Alabama
Race, Waste, and Class
Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature
The Matter of Nature
Ethnic Segregation in Cities
Twentieth-Century Richmond
Redefining Southern Culture
The Most Segregated City in America
The First Waco Horror
Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile during World War II
Soldiers of Democracy
As Long as They Don't Move Next Door
The Color of Their Skin
Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass
The political ecology of flood hazard in urban Guyana
Exploring the Neighborhood Contingency of Race Discrimination in Mortgage Lending in Columbus, Ohio
The Social Construction of Nature
Rethinking Environmental Racism
Racism out of Place
Constructions of ‘whiteness’ in the geographical imagination
Unnatural discourse. ‘Race’ and gender in geography
Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decisionmaking
Social justice and the city
Race Still Matters
Crossing the Great Divide
Experiencing Residential Segregation
Geographical Identities of Ethnic America
Geography, 'race' and Whiteness
Revealing the Vulnerability of People and Places
Changes in the Segregation of Whites from Blacks During the 1980s
The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War
Tornadoes Over Texas
Identity, contingency and the urban geography of 'race
Negro Urban Clusters in the Postbellum South
Urbanization and Segregation
Urban Space, Restrictive Covenants and the Origins of Racial Residential Segregation in a US City, 1900-50
Property Values as a Structural Element of Urban Evolution
Racing geography into the new millennium
An anatomy of race and immigration politics in California
White socio-spatial epistemology
Neighborhood Poverty and African American Politics
Marxism and the Production of Nature
Dumping in Dixie
A River Runs through Us
The Residential Preferences of Blacks
The Ecology of Inequality
Constructions of 'race', place and discipline
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |