(Re)visiting the neighbourhood

Drozdzewski, Danielle; Webster, Natasha A.

doi:10.1111/gec3.12597

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“…Despite these recent developments, we believe that the importance of understanding the neighborhood should not be overlooked in segregation studies. Neighborhoods as "lived-in" spaces provide an opportunity for geographers to study the everyday interactions of residents, their lived experiences of the neighborhood, and concomitant spatial formations [35]. The spatial formation of the neighborhood is multiscalar, which provides geographers with an opportunity to study who lives in a neighborhood and how invisible boundaries of residential segregation are created [36].…”

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The Construction of the Visible and Invisible Boundaries of Microsegregation: A Case Study from Szeged, Hungary

Vámos,

Nagy,

Kovács

2023

Land

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The concept of microsegregation has gained increasing popularity among researchers dealing with socio-spatial disparities in cities. This is because urban space has become increasingly multifaceted over recent decades, and the boundaries of socio-spatial segregation have also become increasingly subtle, often taking invisible forms below the neighborhood level. This study contributes to the literature on microsegregation by exploring small-scale forms of social disparities in one of the neighborhoods of Szeged, a second-tier city in Hungary. We used both quantitative and qualitative research methods to capture visible and invisible forms of microsegregation in the study area. An analysis of census data confirmed the coupling of socio-economic diversity and polarization at the census-tract level in three different forms as a result of various underlying factors, among which the sorting effect of the housing market plays a leading role. The results of in-depth interviews with experts and residents suggest that although the overall perception of the neighborhood is good and that serious conflicts do not occur, there are palpable socio-spatial differences and signs of segregation at the micro scale. The weak sense of segregation can be partly linked to the lack of public spaces where daily encounters between people from different social groups could take place.

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The Construction of the Visible and Invisible Boundaries of Microsegregation: A Case Study from Szeged, Hungary

Vámos,

Nagy,

Kovács

2023

Land

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“…Negative policy narratives about stigmatised areas can also be utilised as a justification for gentrification or the demolition of a housing block, disregarding the needs of the people (Wacquant et al 2014;Doucet 2020). In addition, diverse temporalities can be linked to power relations, belonging, and the spatial formation of a neighbourhood (Drozdzewski & Webster 2021;Jupp 2021).…”

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“…2014; Doucet 2020). In addition, diverse temporalities can be linked to power relations, belonging, and the spatial formation of a neighbourhood (Drozdzewski & Webster 2021; Jupp 2021).…”

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The Narrative Cores of Neighbourhood Reputation as Revealed by Temporal Discourses

Heino,

Honkaniemi,

Luoto

2024

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Neighbourhood reputation is an elusive but much discussed and studied concept that greatly influences people's perceptions of and attitudes towards the residential areas of a city. The temporality related to neighbourhood reputation is a less studied topic. The emergence of a place‐based reputation is a complex social, spatial, temporal, and cultural process that is affected by the neighbourhood's residents and visitors, local and social media, and non‐residents who are knowledgeable about the area. We based our study of reputation on interviews with focus groups, city officials, and politicians. According to the interview data, neighbourhood reputation is articulated through four temporal discourses: the past, presentation, representation, and the future. Ultimately, underlying these four temporal discourses we found causes for neighbourhood reputation and stigmatisation that we named as narrative cores.

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“…Works examining infrastructures of public health, education, and culture highlight the role of urban spaces in affording social connection, political participation, and cultural vitality in the public sphere (Latham & Layton, 2019). Built cultural infrastructures like museums, libraries, theatres, community centres, culture houses, and art spaces not only represent prominent material facilities in city centres but also contribute decisively to neighbourhoods' spatial and social formation through their physical layout and functional orientation (Drozdzewski & Webster, 2021).…”

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A “Motor” for the Neighbourhood? Urban Planning and the Challenges of Relocating Cultural Infrastructures

Mager

Wagner

2022

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In the past 40 years, alternative cultural institutions have been established in many Western welfare states to respond locally to the social and urban crises that have arisen in the post-war era. Community centres and workshops for local history and youth offer new opportunities for cultural and social participation and complement the offerings at more traditional cultural infrastructures such as art museums, theatres, and opera houses. Initially borne of grassroots movements that struggled for political recognition and necessary resources in protracted disputes with municipal authorities, these facilities now play important roles in the cultural landscape of many cities. In response to calls for a “democratisation of culture” and social development programmes targeting urban geographical inequalities, these institutions provide accessible and persistent spaces for socialisation, cultural empowerment, and negotiating community concerns. These facilities are often located on brownfields and are material manifestations of socioeconomic change and urban regeneration. Using the relocation of an established socio-cultural centre to a new neighbourhood in the city of Heidelberg, Germany, as an example, we seek to understand the evolving ways political and social relations are formed, negotiated, and challenged through cultural infrastructures. By analysing newspaper coverage, policy documents, and interviews with stakeholders from urban planning, city administration, community work, and resident populations, we map and evaluate shifting planning discourses and forms of embeddedness in the processes of de- and re-localisation. We end by reflecting on more open and nuanced understandings of cultural infrastructures that could generate multiple and diverse outcomes interacting and possibly outbalancing each other.

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(Re)visiting the neighbourhood

Cited by 11 publications

References 92 publications

The Construction of the Visible and Invisible Boundaries of Microsegregation: A Case Study from Szeged, Hungary

The Construction of the Visible and Invisible Boundaries of Microsegregation: A Case Study from Szeged, Hungary

The Narrative Cores of Neighbourhood Reputation as Revealed by Temporal Discourses

A “Motor” for the Neighbourhood? Urban Planning and the Challenges of Relocating Cultural Infrastructures

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