Brooklyn and the World: A Globalization Module

Professor Timothy Shortell
Sociology Department, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Questions About
CD 14

Make sure that you have the profile for Community District 14. (To get it, follow the instructions in the main Globalization page, from which this window was spawned.) Next, you'll need some basic information about the borough of Brooklyn. Fortunately, the Department of City Planning site publishes a summary of each borough, so we can use the Brooklyn summary as a point of comparison. We'll also consult economic, housing, and social data for Kings County from the U.S. Census.

 

See if you can correctly answer the following questions. You won't be completely on your own, though. One of the great sociologists of the twentieth century, Professor Emile Durkheim, will assist you.

 

1. How does the population growth (between 1990 and 2000) for CD 14 compare to the borough as a whole?
CD 14 grew more slowly.
CD 14 and the borough grew at about the same rate.
CD 14 grew more rapidly.
You can't tell from the tables.

2. How does CD 14 compare to the borough in terms of poverty?
There are more people on public assistance in CD 14 than in the borough.
The relative size of the population receiving public assistance is larger in CD 14 than in the borough.
There are fewer people on public assistance in CD 14 than in the borough.
The relative size of the population receiving public assistance is smaller in CD 14 than in the borough.

3. Compare the land use for multi-family residential property in CD 14 and the borough. Which of the following is true?
There is relatively more multi-family residential property in the borough.
There is relatively more multi-family residential property in CD 14.
CD 14 and the borough are similar.
You can't tell from the tables.

4. Brooklyn College is in which Census Tract?
752
458
772
You can't tell from the map.

5. Using average household size as a metric, which is more crowded, CD 14, the Census Tract in which BC is located, or the borough as a whole?
CD 14
the Census Tract in which BC is located
the borough
You can't tell from the tables.

Professor Durkheim says:

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