Measuring racial segregation at different geographic scales in Cape Town and Johannesburg
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Measuring racial segregation at different geographic scales in Cape Town and Johannesburg
1991-2011
ISIbalo Symposium on Evidence Based Decision Making
12 September 2013
Kevin Parry
Background
Background
Source: Davies (1981)
The level of segregation in South African urban space by census year, between whites and blacks, as measured by the index of dissimilarity
From Christopher (2001)0 = perfect integration; 100 = total segregation
Repeal of the Group Areas Act
Group Areas
Act (1950)
1994 elections
Leve
l of s
egre
gatio
n
Dealing with the apartheid city
Pg 7: Urban settlements should be “spatially and socio-economically integrated, free of racial and gender discrimination and segregation.”
Pg 11: The central prerequisite of meeting urban challenges: to overcome the historical patterns inherent in the apartheid city
Dealing with the apartheid city
Pg 227: Spatial justice: apartheid’s policy of confining particular groups to limited spaces must be reversed.
Pg 457: Social cohesion: improve public spaces and public services to make it easier for South Africans to interact with each other across the racial divide
Measuring racial segregation:Theil’s entropy index
Theil’s entropy index involves two calculations, which measure:
Racial diversity represented by the symbol E
Segregationrepresented by the symbol H
Adapted from Iceland (2004)
E: diversity0No diversity
1.386Perfect diversity
25% 25% 25% 25%
E
E: diversity0No diversity
1.386Perfect diversity
100%
E
H: segregation0Complete
integration
1Complete
segregation
H
E E
E E
E
Methodology
5 476 values of E, one for each small area
1 value of E for entire study area
Values of E for small areas compared to value of E for
entire study area to obtain H for
entire study area
1km2
H2km2
H3km2
H4km2
H5km2
H6km2
H7km2
H8km2
H
1km2
H2km2
H3km2
H4km2
H5km2
H6km2
H7km2
H8km2
H
0.0
1.0
0.5
H
Measuring segregation at different geographic scales: stylised segregation profiles for four regions
Results
Racial diversity (E) scores for 1km2 grid cells: Cape Town, Census 2011
Racial diversity (E) scores for 8km2 grid cells: Cape Town, Census 2011
Racial diversity (E) scores for 1km2 grid cells: Johannesburg, Census 2011
Racial diversity (E) scores for 8km2 grid cells: Johannesburg, Census 2011
Segregation (H) profiles for Cape Town, 1991-2011
Segregation (H) profiles for Johannesburg, 1991-2011
Segregation (H) profiles for Cape Town and Johannesburg, 2011
Conclusion
• In both Johannesburg and Cape Town:
• Residential segregation decreased between 1991 and 2011
• Despite this, segregation remains high in both cities
• Johannesburg exhibits slightly higher segregation at large geographic scales,
compared to Cape Town
• Cape Town exhibits slightly higher segregation at small geographic scales,
compared to Johannesburg
Thank you!
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