Coulton, Claudia.
Finding Place in Community Change Initiatives Using GIS to Uncover Resident Perceptions of their Neighborhoods / [electronic resource] : Claudia Coulton ,Tsui Chan &Kristen Mikelbank - pp. 10-28.
The growing recognition that place matters has led to numerous foundation- and government-sponsored initiatives that attempt to simultaneously strengthen neighborhoods and address the needs of families that live there. Despite the centrality of the concept of neighborhood, these place-based initiatives have few tools to understand how residents identify with the space within their target areas. This article demonstrates how resident-drawn maps gathered in a household survey can be used to uncover individual and collective neighborhood definitions. Using data gathered as part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connections program in 10 cities, the study finds that there is considerable variation among residents in how they define their neighborhoods, but that there are also commonly held neighborhood identities that need to be taken into account in community practice.
Mode of access: Internet.
community change, neighborhood mapping, geographic information systems, resident perceptions
Finding Place in Community Change Initiatives Using GIS to Uncover Resident Perceptions of their Neighborhoods / [electronic resource] : Claudia Coulton ,Tsui Chan &Kristen Mikelbank - pp. 10-28.
The growing recognition that place matters has led to numerous foundation- and government-sponsored initiatives that attempt to simultaneously strengthen neighborhoods and address the needs of families that live there. Despite the centrality of the concept of neighborhood, these place-based initiatives have few tools to understand how residents identify with the space within their target areas. This article demonstrates how resident-drawn maps gathered in a household survey can be used to uncover individual and collective neighborhood definitions. Using data gathered as part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connections program in 10 cities, the study finds that there is considerable variation among residents in how they define their neighborhoods, but that there are also commonly held neighborhood identities that need to be taken into account in community practice.
Mode of access: Internet.
community change, neighborhood mapping, geographic information systems, resident perceptions
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