The view from a broken window: How residents make sense of neighbourhood disorder in Flint

Urban Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 3054-3069

  Johansen, Rachel ^a   Neal, Zachary ^a   Gasteyer, Stephen ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

broken windows theory; crime; disorder; Flint; neighbourhood

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; CRIME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GREENSPACE; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NEIGHBORHOOD; RESIDENT POPULATION;

FLINT; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946400776     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098014552768     Document Type: Article

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