How Big is My Neighborhood? Individual and Contextual Effects on Perceptions of Neighborhood Scale

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 140-150

  Coulton, Claudia J ^a   Jennings, M Zane ^a   Chan, Tsui ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community perceptions; GIS mapping; Neighborhood scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873997077     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-012-9550-6     Document Type: Article

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