Charleston

NY Times Interactive Explorer

By MATTHEW BLOCH, SHAN CARTER and ALAN McLEAN | Source: 2005-9 American Community Survey, Census Bureau; socialexplorer.com. Each block is 200 people.

New York City

Eric Fischer - Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA, each dot is 25 people

Chicago

Eric Fischer - Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA, each dot is 25 people

Houston

Eric Fischer - Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA, each dot is 25 people

Philadelphia

Eric Fischer - Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA, each dot is 25 people

Detroit

Eric Fischer - Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA, each dot is 25 people

Schelling’s Spatial Segregation Model

Neighborhood Model

Jane and her immediate neighbors

• Stay where she is or move?
• Depends on ethnicity of immediate neighbors

Starting point

Initial Setup - Random Distribution

Thresholds

If % of immediate neighbors is > threshold, stay, otherwise move

• 30 %
• 40 %
• 52 %
• 80 %

30% preference

• 72% similarity

40% preference

• 80% similarity

52% preference

• 94% (!)

80% preference

• 54% Similarity

Thomas Schelling

1978

Thomas Schelling

2005 Nobel Prize for Economics - “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis”

Thomas Schelling

Dr Strange Love - 1964 Movie

• Based on conversations with Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Schelling, and Peter George - satirizes Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between USSR and USA

1964 Political Satire

Coursera Course

• Model Thinking - taught by Scott Page of Unversity of Michigan