“You Can't Always Get What You Want…”? Prior-Attitudes and Post-Experiences of Relocation from Restructured Neighbourhoods

Housing Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 942-966

  Lawson, Louise ^a   Kearns, Ade ^a   Egan, Matt ^b   Conway, Ellie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attitudes; experiences; families; Relocation; restructuring

Indexed keywords

FAMILY STRUCTURE; NEIGHBORHOOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELOCATION; RESEARCH METHOD;

EID: 84947128555     PISSN: 02673037     EISSN: 14661810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.994199     Document Type: Article

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