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DISPARITIES IN FOOD ACCESS:
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE ATLANTA METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA
by
Seth Vinson Morganstern
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF SCIENCE
(GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
May 2015
Copyright 2015 Seth Vinson Morganstern
Object Description
| Title | Disparities in food access: an empirical analysis of neighborhoods in the Atlanta metropolitan statistical area |
| Author | Morganstern, Seth Vinson |
| Author email | smorgans@usc.edu;morganstern.seth@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Geographic Information Science and Technology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2015-01-14 |
| Date submitted | 2015-02-10 |
| Date approved | 2015-02-10 |
| Restricted until | 2015-02-10 |
| Date published | 2015-02-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Warshawsky, Daniel N. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Ruddell, Darren M. Lee, Su Jin |
| Abstract | Disparities in food access to different types of food stores are a key factor in assessing the health of food environments. The spatial accessibility of food (hereinafter “food access”) refers to the physical distance between food stores and the neighborhoods they service (Sharkey and Horel 2008; Larson et al. 2009). Nationwide studies of metropolitan and urban areas have shown that low socioeconomic areas have fewer supermarkets and more convenience stores than high socioeconomic areas (Morris et al. 1990; Cotterill and Franklin 1995). However, some more recent studies of localized areas have found no evidence of a relationship between food access and socioeconomic conditions (Alviola et al. 2013). Still others have found that deprived minority neighborhoods exhibit better food access than wealthier areas (Sharkey and Horel 2008). Gaps exist in the literature for food access analyses at the local scale. The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA is one such region lacking an empirical analysis of food access at the neighborhood scale. To investigate the relationship between food access and neighborhood characteristics, this study measures road network distance of neighborhoods, defined as the population weighted centroid of Census Block Groups, to different types of food stores (chain supermarkets, small grocery stores, convenient stores, and fast food restaurants) throughout the 2010 Atlanta MSA. The primary conclusion of this study is that food access to all food store types in the Atlanta MSA is highest among high minority and low income neighborhoods. This may speak more broadly to the differences in food access between urban and rural areas as the majority of all types of food businesses are located in the densely populated areas surrounding the city center of Atlanta. Future research should investigate how urban, rural, and suburban neighborhood types shape food access in the Atlanta MSA. |
| Keyword | food access; food environment; GIS; Atlanta |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Morganstern, Seth Vinson |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Morganster-3171.pdf |
| Archival file | Volume1/etd-Morganster-3171.pdf |
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| Full text | DISPARITIES IN FOOD ACCESS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE ATLANTA METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA by Seth Vinson Morganstern A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) May 2015 Copyright 2015 Seth Vinson Morganstern |
