Everyday Geography and Service Accessibility: The Contours of Disadvantage in Relation to Mental Health

This article investigates everyday geography of young adults and the unequal importance that spatial accessibility to a range urban services might have for their mental health identify those who are truly disadvantaged. Whereas literature on socially differentiated vulnerability place effects has traditionally focused neighborhood residence, we consider daily activity locations explore whether disadvantaged populations more exposed (differential exposure) or affected by effect) low compared advantaged counterparts. Data came from 1,983 (between eighteen twenty-five years old) living in Montreal, Canada. We observed less educated had lower space than counterparts but also they were vulnerable having numbers surroundings: Lower service was associated with poorer among not educated. suggest three sociospatial mechanisms related (1) experiences, (2) flexibility behavior, (3) rules regulating actual access why “objective” lack close residential represent greater burden people.