Abstract The rapid growth of Asian and Hispanic populations in urban areas is superceding traditional classifications of neighborhoods (for example as white, transitional, or minority). The “global neighborhood” that includes all groups (white, black, Hispanic and Asian) is one important new category. We examine the emerging spatial pattern of racial/ethnic composition in the Chicago metropolis, documenting an expansion of all-minority neighborhoods in the city and just beyond its borders, a shrinking set of all-white neighborhoods in the outer suburbs, and more diverse neighborhoods including whites mainly in between. The most novel element of this pattern is how large the zone of diversity has become and how far it extends into suburbia, upending the old dichotomy of “chocolate city” and “vanilla suburbs.” In addition to comparing the distance of different kinds of neighborhoods from the urban core, we also analyze their adjacency to neighborhoods of the same type or other types. There is a strong tendency toward spatial clustering of each neighborhood type and also for transitions on the boundaries of clusters either to expand or to contract their territory.

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大都市的新兴空间组织：芝加哥的多样性和少数民族聚居区

摘要城市地区亚洲和西班牙裔人口的快速增长正在取代传统的社区分类（例如，白人，过渡性或少数民族）。包括所有群体（白人，黑人，西班牙裔和亚洲人）的“全球社区”是一个重要的新类别。我们研究了芝加哥大都市中新兴的种族/族裔组成的空间格局，记录了该城市及其边界以外的所有少数民族社区的扩张，外郊区全白人社区的萎缩以及更加多样化的社区包括白人主要在中间。这种模式中最新颖的元素是多样性区域的规模和延伸到郊区的程度，颠覆了“巧克力城市”和“香草郊区”的古老二分法。除了比较不同种类的社区与城市核心的距离之外，我们还分析了它们与相同类型或其他类型的社区的邻接关系。每种邻域类型都有很强的空间聚类趋势，并且在聚类边界上的过渡会扩大或缩小其领土。