Abstract

has long been concerned with the tendency for particular types of people to concentrate in different residential zones of the metropolitan community. Although the classical Burgess hypothesis that low-status persons live in the central parts of urban settlements while higherstatus persons live in the outskirts is now recognized to have limited general validity,' a number of recent studies have demonstrated that clearly discernible patterns of residential differentiation do exist.2 The present endeavor reports the preliminary results of a larger ongoing research project that is in part based on some of these more recent investigations. Specifically, this paper may be viewed as an extension of the recent work done by Hoover and Vernon and by Schnore. Hoover and Vernon demonstrated that

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