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Urban Spatial Transformation: Philadelphia, 1850 to 1880, Heterogeneity to Homogeneity?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Janet Rothenberg Pack
Janet Rothenberg Pack*
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University of Pennsylvania
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The study of the socioeconomic differentiation of urban residential patterns has occupied generations of social scientists. Sociologists, economists, and political scientists adduce a strong relationship between residential patterns and human behavior. Moreover, the residential patterns established early in the city’s development are also believed to influence the evolution of future social and spatial organization (Hurd, 1903; Hoyt, 1939; Hoover and Vernon, 1959). Economists and political scientists have been preoccupied with the rapid suburbanization of the urban population since the end of World War II and the fragmentation of the metropolitan area into independent political jurisdictions (ACIR, 1965; Margolis, 1961; Oates, 1971; Tiebout, 1956; Pack and Pack, 1978).

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Research Article
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Social Science History , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Fall 1984 , pp. 425 - 454
Copyright
Copyright © Social Science History Association 1984 

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Author’s Note: This paper was written with the encouragement and assistance of numerous persons associated with the Philadelphia Social History Project, University of Pennsylvania. Theodore Hershberg proposed and encouraged the investigation and Henry Williams and Richard Greenfield generously shared their extensive knowledge of the contents and technical details of the PSHP data files. Henry Williams also read and commented extensively on several versions of the paper. William Kreider and Peter Maio provided excellent programming services. Elizabeth Welsh and Elda Quinn were cooperative and efficient typists. The discussion of Roger Simon, of Lehigh University, at the American History Association meetings was very helpful in reorienting some of the interpretation of the data. This research was begun with support from the Division of Research Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities (RO 32485-78-1612). The PSHP also acknowledges support from the Sociology Program, Division of Social Sciences; National Science Foundation; the Center for Population Research, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development; and the Center for Work and Mental Health, National Institute for Mental Health.

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