I ran across this interesting blog post on a simple computational model that produces segregated neighborhoods, bit-player: Back to school. It is worth a read.
The sobering lesson of this simple model is that it doesn’t take deep-seated and vitriolic racism to produce a stark pattern of segregation; it’s enough that each of us feels uncomfortable when outnumbered. And the sharp color lines develop even though those who move don’t take race into account when choosing a new location.
I guess I like it because of my interest in geographic genetics and spatially explicit, individual-based models, which is what the third chapter of my dissertation involved.
