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- Title
Minority-Based Variations in Business Scale and Function: A Land-Use Analysis in Los Angeles, California.
- Authors
Harries, Keith D.
- Abstract
The plight of the business structure in minority communities is a generally recognized fact of economic life. The difficulties of minority businesses may be attributable to such factors as low income levels, blighted and spatially constricted physical contexts, poor circulation systems and insurance problems related to high levels of actual or anticipated criminal activity. This article attempts to contribute some insights to the understanding of land utilization in minority business systems by concentrating on two aspects-scale and function-of retail and service activity in the Los Angeles area. The hypothesis of significant variation in the apportionment of the two types of retail units between the ethnic areas was tested using chi-square analysis. When the constituent functions were examined closely, low-order eating and drinking establishments were found to be disproportionately strongly represented in the minority areas, suggesting that the generalized nature of the "convenience" and "shopping" dichotomy masked underlying variations and tended to exaggerate the order level of the minority stores.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; LOS Angeles (Calif.); UNITED States; LAND use; MINORITIES; MINORITY business enterprises; BUSINESS; RETAIL industry; SHOPPING; SERVICE industries; RETAIL stores
- Publication
Land Economics, 1972, Vol 48, Issue 1, p72
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145644