'Near and far': Social distancing in domiciled characterisations of homeless people

Urban Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1739-1753

  Hodgetts, Darrin ^a   Stolte, Ottilie ^a   Radley, Alan ^b   Leggatt Cook, Chez ^c   Groot, Shiloh ^a   Chamberlain, Kerry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MEGACITY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SYMPATRY; URBAN POPULATION;

ARTICLE; CITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HOMELESSNESS; LEGAL ASPECT; NEW ZEALAND; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STIGMA; URBAN POPULATION;

CITIES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOMELESS PERSONS; NEW ZEALAND; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL STIGMA; URBAN POPULATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 79957527261     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098010377476     Document Type: Article

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