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Noise is a fact of netlife......hopefully this post won't reinforce
that aspect   :-)

     I am currently considering a dissertation that would examine the nature
and dynamic behavior of "Bailey borders", or a generalized version of one. What 
is a Bailey border, you ask? This feature of the urban landscape is a spatial 
discontinuity in housing prices that is coincident with a border between two 
neighborhoods. In other words, housing prices were higher on the side of the 
road that generally had cheaper housing and lower on the side that had higher 
priced homes.  Bailey generalized the characteristics of the neighborhoods, 
referring to residents as groups 'X' and 'Y'. Subsequent researchers, however, 
took this to mean that race was the dividing point between residents. All the
literature that I have deals with racial aspects. Also, the lit collected is
economic in outlook and origin.
     My request is for references or journals dealing with spatial
discontinuities in residential areas or residential/commercial areas.
By 'discontinuities' I mean in just about anything, housing price, land price,
lot size, road systems, whatever..... it doesn't have to be racially oriented
since I hope to specify a generalized model for more widespread use.
My hope here is to gain a foothold on related literature that I haven't been 
exposed to, namely literature that geographers would recognize.

Thanks.

Lee Cotton
lcotton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu