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Scott Markley
@snmarkley.bsky.social
Studying racially uneven sub/urban development with GIS, maps, #rstats, #rspatial

https://scottnmarkley.github.io
The appendix articles are both freely available for download. If you’d like access to another, please let me know, and I’d be happy to share!
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Appendix 2: “Housing, socioeconomic, and racial data in consistent neighborhood geometries for 65 cities mapped by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, 1940 – 2019”

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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Appendix 1: With Steve Holloway, Taylor Hafley, and Mathew Hauer. “Housing unit and urbanization estimates for the continental U.S. in consistent tract boundaries, 1940 – 2019”

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Housing unit and urbanization estimates for the continental U.S. in consistent tract boundaries, 1940–2019 - Scientific Data
Measurement(s) human dwelling Technology Type(s) Geographic Information System Factor Type(s) housing units • urbanization Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo sapiens Sample Char...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Chapter 6: With Steve Holloway. “Underestimating racism? Decoupling race and redlining”

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Underestimating Racism? Decoupling Race and Redlining
A rapidly expanding body of research has sought to connect the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s (HOLC) so-called redlining maps to a wide array of present-day social injustices. The assertion is tha...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Chapter 5: With Anne Bonds. “Race and value in space and time: a critical narrative cartography of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s area descriptions”

🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2025.2492218
Race and value in space and time: a critical narrative cartography of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation's Area Descriptions
The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s (HOLC) Residential Security maps were created in the late 1930s to capture the ostensible investment risk posed by urban neighborhood characteristics. To generat...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Chapter 4: “Tabulating Home Owners’ Loan Corporation area description sheet data”

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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Chapter 3: “Federal ‘redlining’ maps: a critical reappraisal”

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Federal ‘redlining’ maps: A critical reappraisal - Scott Markley, 2024
In the past decade, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s (HOLC) so-called ‘redlining’ maps have gone from a niche corner of urban historical scholarship to the c...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Chapter 2: “Planning spatial obsolescence: residential segregation and the racist theory of (anti-)value”

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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
All chapters and appendices other than the Intro & Conclusion are also available as articles, and I think they read better in this format. I don’t have a book to promote, but if you’d like to get a sense of how it may have looked, here are my dissertation chapters as articles in order in one place:
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The dissertation itself is titled *Planning Spatial Obsolescence: Racial Capitalism, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, and the Production of Racialized Devaluation*, and the whole thing is fully available on Proquest.

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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM