Was There a Social Transformation of Urban Neighbourhoods in the 1980s? A Decade of Worsening Social Conditions in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Julian Chow and Claudia Coulton
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Julian Chow: School of Social Welfare, State University of New York at Albany, 135 Western Avenue, Albany, New York 12222, USA, jchow@cnsvax.albany.edu.
Claudia Coulton: Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA, cxcl0@po.cwru.edu.

Urban Studies, 1998, vol. 35, issue 8, 1359-1375

Abstract: One central thesis in recent urban poverty research, that social context has further disadvantaged poor residents of central-city neighbourhoods, has not been tested empirically. This analysis examines the strength of relationships among adverse social conditions in neighbourhoods in one North American industrial city. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, the hypothesis that negative social conditions have become increasingly intertwined in the 1980s was supported. Neighbourhoods could be distinguished along several important dimensions in the early 1980s. At the end of the decade, a single dimension of interconnected adverse conditions predominates. While the explanation for these trends is structural, the conditions themselves must be addressed if efforts to revitalise neighbourhoods and prevent the spread of poverty are to succeed.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1080/0042098984402

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