ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the underlying processes that are responsible for the disparities in access to goods and services and the implications for minority households. Real estate, banking, financial services, and health services also decentralized, leaving neighborhoods of older central cities sometimes devoid of key retail functions. The three data sources were utilizes to display and analyze retail locations, population attributes, and accessibility. The two study areas on the basis of the follows requirements: one relatively large and one relatively small urban county so that differences due to population and city or county size might become apparent in test. The maps of the nearest Euclidean and network distances between block groups and stores suggest that the Areas of Minority Concentration and Areas of Hispanic Concentration are relatively inaccessible to grocery chain locations in Monroe County. The segregation on one hand and retail decentralization on the other has not only had catastrophic impacts on urban economics but led to accessibility and price–differential problems for minority concentrations.
