Gotta Keep 'Em Separated.

i have always been really into segregation of cities.  for some reason, i think that the concentration of people and how they move or don't move is so interesting.  check out these images below of diversity or lack there of within big cities of the US.  it really proves a point that one of my friends said to me in college: people don't want to intermingle.  whenever we have a choice, people always want to be with their kind.  i don't know if i SUPER agree with that, but it is an interesting take on the images below.

NOTE: Black  White  Asian  Latino


Washington, D.C., for example, has a stark east/west divide between white and black:




Detroit, meanwhile, is marked by the infamous Eight Mile beltway, which serves a precise boundary for the city's black and white populations. Integration is almost non existent:



That's not the case with New York, however: There are vast areas of extreme racial concentration. But the sheer size of those areas means that the boundary areas because intensely rich areas of cross-cultural ferment:



L.A., meanwhile, is sort of the opposite. Because no part of the city is particularly dense, you get blended neighborhoods which are at times larger than the racially homogeneous ones:


[H/T: Datapointed via Flowing Data]