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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"neighborhood attachment"”.
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Persistence in Residential Choice and Neighborhood Attachment
… was a large demographic shock to existing neighborhood composition. Using novel panel data that tracks individual residential choices, I document stark differences in out-migration responses to this shock among two religious groups. To understand differences in neighborhood attachment, I …
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Neighborhood Attachment Among Latinos in Low-Income Communities
<p>Neighborhood attachment, defined as an individual's feelings about their social commitment to a particular community, has been a central focus of studies involving space and place (Smith 1975) and community activism (Guest and Lee 1983, Crenshaw and St. John 1989) in the U.S. Yet despite the …
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Neighborhood Attachment as a Moderator of the Relationship between Collective Efficacy and Delinquency
… efficacy is a well established construct in the neighborhood literature, and is a measure of how cohesive residents are within a neighborhood as well as how effective residents are at controlling crime (Sampson & Raudenbush, 1997). Higher levels of collective efficacy are related to lower levels …
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Cultural and social integration of British immigrants and ethnic minorities: Exploring ethnic and generational differences in gender role attitudes, social networks, neighborhood attachment and work values
… gender role attitudes, social networks, neighborhood attachment and work values of first and second generation immigrants. To this end, this thesis uses a large-scale nationally representative dataset: Understanding Society: United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study and a range of …
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The Social Construction of a Public/Private Neighborhood: Examining Neighbor Interaction and Neighborhood Meaning in a New Orleans Mixed-Income Development
… study of a HOPE VI site in a gentrifying neighborhood in New Orleans. Data was collected through 48 interviews, observation, mental maps, and casual encounters with residents living in the predominantly African American redeveloped St. Thomas Housing Development – renamed River Garden. I …
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Building a community of our own: How can the built environment help? Neighborhood communal space and community participation in Chinese urban communities
… endeavors to examining the relationships among neighborhood built environment, local social relations, and community identity. This dissertation contributes to this scholarship by synthesizing interrelated, yet segmented, theoretical approaches to gain a holistic understating of the relationship …
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Reconciliation through reintegration? : a study on spatial proximity and social relations in two post-civil war Beirut neighborhoods
… parts of the capital, many of its residential neighborhoods remain almost entirely religiously homogeneous. This study takes an in-depth look at two neighborhoods undergoing sectarian integration. Relying on neighborhood observations and face-to-face interviews with over 30 residents, it …