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  2. Residential segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Commons. v. t. e. Residential segregation is the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighborhoods [1] —a form of segregation that "sorts population groups into various neighborhood contexts and shapes the living environment at the neighborhood level". [2] While it has traditionally been associated with racial segregation ...

  3. Suburb - Wikipedia

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    The Swedish suburbs of Husby, Kista, and Akalla are built according to the typical city planning of the Million Programme. A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city. [ 1 ]

  4. Housing segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, due to their white privilege and economic security, whites were able to flee the city to live in highly invested and wealthier suburbs on the outskirts of metro Detroit. Their neighborhoods were typically clean and had high housing values, a major source of pride and economic and social prosperity for white residents.

  5. African-American neighborhood - Wikipedia

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    e. African-American neighborhoods or black neighborhoods are types of ethnic enclaves found in many cities in the United States. Generally, an African American neighborhood is one where the majority of the people who live there are African American. Some of the earliest African-American neighborhoods were in New Orleans, Mobile, Atlanta, and ...

  6. History of African Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable 's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable, the city's founder, was Haitian of African and French descent. [4] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city's first black community in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, the first ...

  7. Blockbusting - Wikipedia

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    The white residents were encouraged to quickly sell, at a loss, and emigrate to more racially homogeneous suburbs. Blockbusting was most prevalent on the West Side and South Side of Chicago, and also was heavily practiced in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn , New York City ; in the West Oak Lane and Germantown neighborhoods of Northwest ...

  8. Soweto - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Soweto (/ səˈwɛtoʊ, - ˈweɪt -, - ˈwiːt -/) [3][4] is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships. [5] Formerly a separate municipality, it is now incorporated in the ...

  9. White flight - Wikipedia

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    Studies suggest that rising crime rates were one of the reasons that white households left cities for suburbs in the 1960s and 1970s. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] Samuel Kye (2018) cites several studies that identified "factors such as crime and neighborhood deterioration, rather than racial prejudice, as more robust determinants of white flight". [ 100 ]