This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Congdon, P. Articles by Shepherd, J. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

Components of Social Change in Urban Areas

London Research Centre, County Hall, London

John Shepherd

Department of Geography, Birkbeck College, London University

A model for components of social change which distinguishes expected or structural change from positional change is applied to census indices for physically defined urban areas in England. Census profiles are evaluated for groups of urban areas defined by positional change. The model of change used shows a widening of unemployment differentials but convergence in housing stress and car home ownership. At local level, outer city municipal estates undergo positional increases in unemployment, while diffusion of car and home ownership is apparent in middle income owner occupied inner ring towns.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?