Food for Thought: An Analysis of Metropolitan Polarization and School Lunch Disparities in the Austin MSA

Metropolitan Fragmentation, racial and class polarization, and segregation have influenced each other and shaped the availability of resources in American cities, including the quality of school food service. In this project I use accessible, publicly available data to map how polarization, race, class, and school lunch relate to each other spatially in the Austin MSA. Through visual comparative analysis, I find that there is a strong relationship between the spatial patterns of uneven school food service characteristics, and the patterns of polarization of white, black, and Hispanic residents and students.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Grantor

Texas State University

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Crane, Austin W.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Sarmiento, Eric

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Zhan, F. Benjamin
• Solem, Michael

• school lunch
• metropolitan fragmentation
• metropolitan polarization
• segregation
• food systems
• inequity

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/16088

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/16088