CSDE Seminar: Constructing Segregation: Examining Social and Spatial Division in Road Networks
Posted: 5/19/2023 (CSDE Seminar Series)
Please join CSDE as we host Dr. Elizabeth Roberto, Department of Sociology at Rice University for her talk “Constructing Segregation: Examining Social and Spatial Division in Road Networks”. For this talk Dr. Roberto will be discussing how her paper develops a novel approach that identifies missing road segments that we would expect to exist in a city’s road network given the surrounding infrastructure. They find that unexpected disconnectivity in a city’s road network is associated with racial differences in nearby areas and contributes to higher levels of segregation at the local and city level. The findings emphasize the power of the built environment and suggest that road networks warrant more attention as a factor that may contribute to the persistence of segregation.
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM PT
Deadline: 05/26/2023
Location: 101 Hans Rosling Center