In recent decades, social work and other social science research disciplines have become
increasingly reliant on large secondary data sets, which have increased in both number and …

For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their
demolition and redevelopment—via the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for …

The goal of this chapter is to review methodological, empirical, and theoretical advances in
studying neighborhood contexts and adolescent development. The first section summarizes …

Technology inequalities based on race and ethnicity present a paradox. African-Americans
and Latinos have lower rates of access and skill, even controlling for socioeconomic factors …

This book, the outcome of several years of research, is an important addition to the literature
on digital cities. The approach, the arguments, the methodology, and the outcomes, some of …

This paper contributes to the literature on obtaining unbiased estimates of neighborhood
effects, explored in the context of a centralized social welfare state. We employ a …

This paper analyses the degree to which the mixture of low-, middle-and high-income males
in the neighbourhood affects the subsequent earnings of individuals, and aims to test …

Much recent literature—emanating both from the US and Europe—has focused our attention
on the plight of children growing up in neighborhoods of concentrated socioeconomic …

Neighborhood characteristics have been linked to healthy behavior, including effective
parenting behaviors. This may be partially explained through the neighborhood's relation to …

This article has two purposes. First, it explores the ideas of vulnerability, precariousness,
and resilience as they apply to people, housing, neighborhoods, and metropolitan areas …