MFI Quarterly Report: Inequality and Segregation in Southern California
This Report studies the changes in inequality and racial composition and segregation in each of the counties in the Southern California region over a 50 year period.
The Metropolitan Futures Initiative at the University of California, Irvine aims to develop an improved understanding of communities and their potential for integrative and collaborative planning and action to ensure a bright future for the region. It approaches these goals by bringing together an interdisciplinary research team along with the insights and techniques of “big data” research. [Find out more…]
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Understanding Business Churning Dynamics and their Spatial Variation
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MFI Quarterly Reports
Rising inequality and neighborhood mixing: Comparing across metropolitan areas
Southern California Regional Quarterly Reports are prepared by MFI researchers, which aims to build a base of knowledge to guide policymakers in improving the overall quality of life in the Southland. [Find out more…]
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Business Relocations in Southern California Cities
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Recent Updates
- Read the Report on Irvine at 50: The changing landscape of housing, commuting, and amenities
This MFI report presents how Irvine has matured and transformed over the last several decades. The present report pays close attention to the city’s residents and their living environment (or the quality-of-life metrics). In Chapter 2, we explore the growth of Irvine’s boundaries… Continue Reading Home… - Read the Report on Irvine at 50: From a Planned Community to a Growing Job Center
This MFI Report presents the evolution of Irvine with a focus on its function as a job center. Although Irvine is well-known as a planned community with villages allowing for a comfortable suburban lifestyle, it nonetheless functions as a large job center to… Continue Reading Home… - Read the Report. Irvine at 50: A Tale of Continuity and Change
The city of Irvine has experienced significant change over its 50-year history, and yet one constant is that crime has remained at a low level, and, if anything, has been declining in the most recent decade. Why is that? In this report, we… Continue Reading Home… - Quarterly Report on Where the Highly Educated are moving in California
This Report explored residential mobility patterns among residents of California counties across four decades: 1985-90; 1995-2000; 2005-09, and 2015-19. We focused explicitly on highly educated residents (those with at least a Bachelor’s degree). We also explored in more depth the mobility within southern… Continue Reading Home… - Quarterly Report on Inequality and Segregation in Southern California
This Report studies the changes in inequality and racial composition and segregation in each of the counties in the Southern California region over a 50 year period. Many of the graphs display changes over a 50 year period since 1970, and some reach… Continue Reading Home…
