Was there a social transformation of urban neighbourhoods in the 1980s? A decade of worsening social conditions in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Urban Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1359-1375

  Chow, Julian ^a   Coulton, Claudia ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNER CITY AREA; NEIGHBOURHOOD CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; URBAN POVERTY;

USA, OHIO, CLEVELAND;

EID: 0031691470     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098984402     Document Type: Article

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