Matz Dahlberg,Matias Eklöf,Peter Fredriksson et al.
Matz Dahlberg et al.
Using Swedish micro data, the paper examines the impact of local public services on community choice. The choice of community is modelled as a choice between a discrete set of alternatives. It is found that, given taxes, high spending on ch...
Neighbourhood disorder and social cohesiveness among immigrants in a new destination: Dominicans in Reading, PA [0.03%]
移民社区的邻里混乱与社会凝聚力：宾夕法尼亚州雷丁市的多米尼加人社群
R S Oropesa
R S Oropesa
Dominican immigrants are increasingly turning away from traditional metropolitan gateways to settle in relatively small and medium-sized cities in the Northeast US. This study examines their views about neighbourhood social disorder and coh...
Making scents of transition: smellscapes and the everyday in "old" and "new" urban Poland [0.03%]
嗅觉与转型：从“老”波兰到“新”波兰的城市日常生活体验
Martyna Śliwa,Kathleen Riach
Martyna Śliwa
In this article, the growing body of literature on transition within central and eastern Europe is developed by exploring how discussing the senses may illuminate the experience of change to post-socialism for urban dwellers. After situatin...
Composition, concentration and deprivation: exploring their association with social cohesion among different ethnic groups in the UK [0.03%]
构成、集中和剥夺：探索它们与英国不同族裔群体的社会凝聚力之间的联系
Laia Bécares,Mai Stafford,James Laurence et al.
Laia Bécares et al.
Although studies in the US have shown an association between the ethnic residential composition of an area and reports of decreased social cohesion among its residents, this association is not clear in the UK, and particularly for ethnic mi...
Violence, drug markets and racial composition: challenging stereotypes through spatial analysis [0.03%]
暴力、毒品市场与种族构成：通过空间分析打破刻板印象
Cynthia Lum
Cynthia Lum
Places in which there is a strong spatial connection between violence and drug activity can often evoke particular stereotypes. They are believed to be places marked by high levels of social disorganisation, unemployment, disorder and racia...
The politics of urban informality in Philadelphia's recovery house movement [0.03%]
费城复苏房屋运动中的城市非正规性政治学
Robert P Fairbanks II
Robert P Fairbanks II
There are some 60,000 vacant properties in the city of Philadelphia, 30,000 of which are abandoned row houses. In the neighbourhood of Kensington, street-level entrepreneurs have reconfigured hundreds of former working-class row homes to pr...
Andrew E G Jonas,David Gibbs,Aidan While
Andrew E G Jonas
The new urban politics (NUP) literature has helped to draw attention to a new generation of entrepreneurial urban regimes involved in the competition to attract investment to cities. Interurban competition often had negative environmental c...
James A Levine,Shelly K McCrady,Sandra Boyne et al.
James A Levine et al.
With evidence that urbanisation is associated with obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease, this article compares daily physical activity between rural and urban dwellers. Specifically, it examines habitual daily activity...
The spatial pattern of suicide in the US in relation to deprivation, fragmentation and rurality [0.03%]
美国自杀的空间模式与剥夺、分散和农村特征的关系
Peter Congdon
Peter Congdon
Analysis of geographical patterns of suicide and psychiatric morbidity has demonstrated the impact of latent ecological variables (such as deprivation, rurality). Such latent variables may be derived by conventional multivariate techniques ...
"Near and far": social distancing in domiciled characterisations of homeless people [0.03%]
“近”与“远”：收容措施下对无家可归者社会距离的刻画
Darrin Hodgetts,Ottilie Stolte,Alan Radley et al.
Darrin Hodgetts et al.
For domiciled individuals, homeless people provide a disturbing reminder that all is not right with the world. Reactions to seeing homeless people frequently encompass repulsion, discomfort, sympathy and sometimes futility. This paper consi...