Question

Conclusion of demographic structure of the Neighbourhood

Answer 1

The development of neighbourhood typologies dates to the work of Booth in London and Burgess

in Chicago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the social area typology of Shevky

and Bell from the 1950s. This bibliography and literature review, however, focuses on literature

from the 1970s, the beginning of a multivariate statistical approach to neighbourhood classification.

Emphasis is placed on studies that attempt to measure change in a city’s neighborhood social

geography and on research conducted in Canada, the United States and Australia/New Zealand

with particular focus on Canadian studies. We also focus on the emergence of methodological

refinements, including the development of joint comparative analyses whereby census

tract data for several metropolitan areas in one census year are considered simultaneously or

data for two or more years are combined for a single metropolitan area.