Background: Researchers and public health officials in Canada, the United States and Australia have for some time noted broader geographic accessibility to gambling establishments, above all in socioeconomically underprivileged communities. This increase in availability could lead to more and more gambling problems. This article focuses, in an ecological perspective, in particular on a spatial analysis of the geographic accessibility of sites possessing a VLT permit in the Montréal area, i.e. Montréal Island, the South Shore and Laval, from the standpoint of the development of an indicator of the vulnerability (socioeconomic components and demographic components) to gambling of populations at the level of certain neighbourhood units (dissemination areas). With the recent development of geographic information systems (GIS), it is now possible to ascertain accessibility to services much more accurately, for example by taking into account the configuration of the road network.
Résumé
Cet article aborde la question de la formation des quartiers à travers l’expérience des Tables de quartier engagées dans le programme d’Initiative montréalaise de soutien au développement social local. Il analyse la constitution d’espaces de délibération animés par des acteurs locaux chargés de débattre des grands enjeux d’aménagement et de développement social. Les Tables de quartier de Montréal revêtent des modèles organisationnels variés mais partagent les mêmes préoccupations. Elles participent par différents moyens, que ce soient des démarches de planification, de concertation ou de négociation, à définir le quartier comme espace transactionnel. Elles produisent et reproduisent ainsi la figure du quartier.
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