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the databases reasonably quick to construct, and, from an intellectual
point of view, that many research topics associated with cities are inher-
ently spatial. Several studies in North America have taken individual- or
household-level records and used them to explore historical paterns
of segregation. These include J. Gilliland and S. Olson, “Residential
Segregation in the Industrializing City: A Closer Look,”
Urban Geogra-
phy
31 (2010): 29-58, which studies Montreal based on the 1881 census;
K. Schlichting, P. Tuckel, and R. Maisel, “Residential Segregation and
the Beginning of the Great Migration of African Americans to Hart-
ford, Connecticut: A GIS-Based Analysis,”
Historical Methods
41 (2008):
132-43; and P. Tuckel, K. Schlichting, and R. Maisel, “Social, Economic,
and Residential Diversity within Hartford's African American Com-
munity at the Beginning of the Great Migration,”
Journal of Black Studies
37 (2007): 710-36, looking at Hartford, Connecticut. D. DeBats, “Tale
of Two Cities: Using Tax Records to Develop GIS Files for Mapping
and Understanding Nineteenth Century US Cities,”
Historical Methods
41 (2008): 17-38, and DeBats, “Using GIS and Individual-Level Data
for W hole Communities: A Path toward the Reconciliation of Political
and Social History,”
Social Science Computer Review
27 (2009): 313-30
compare Alexandria, Virginia, with Newport, Kentucky, in the mid-
nineteenth century. A. E. Hillier, “Spatial Analysis of Historical Redlin-
ing: A Methodological Exploration,”
Journal of Housing Research
14, no.
1:137-67 and her chapter “Redlining in Philadelphia,” in Knowles,
Past
Time, Past Place,
79-93 explores how mortgage redlining, the 1930s prac-
tice of declaring some areas as risky to make loans to - a practice often
associated with race - affected loans in Philadelphia. E. Diamond and
D. Bodenhamer, “Investigating W hite-Flight in Indianapolis: A GIS Ap-
proach,”
History and Computing
13 (2001): 25-44, and J. Stanger-Ross,
“Neither Fight nor Flight: Urban Synagogues in Post-war Philadelphia,”
Journal of Urban History
32 (2006): 791-812 both investigate the relation-
ship between religious change and broader urban changes. R. C. Allen,
“Geting to
Going to the Show,
”
New Review of Film and Television Stud-
ies
8 (2010): 264-76 explores how GIS can be used to understand the
role of cinema in U.S. cities in the early twentieth century, with race
again being a major issue. Moving away from North America, Z. Frank,
“Layers, Flows and Intersections: Jeronymo José de Mello and Artisan
