Redefining Neighborhoods Using Common Destinations : Social Characteristics of Activity
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Redefining neighborhoods using common destinations: social characteristics of activity spaces and home census tracts compared.
Research on neighborhood effects has focused largely on residential neighborhoods, but people are exposed to many other places in the course of their daily lives-at school, at work, when shopping, and so on. Thus, studies of residential neighborhoods consider only a subset of the social-spatial environment affecting individuals. In this article, we examine the characteristics of adults' "activi...
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