TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing the temporal nature of social disorder through abandoned buildings and interstitial spaces
AU - Wallace, Danielle
AU - Schalliol, David
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - With the recent housing crisis, studying abandoned buildings has once again become important. However, it has been some time since abandoned buildings were the subject of direct study, leaving scholars with scant knowledge about the characteristics of abandoned buildings, how they change, and their relationship to neighborhood processes. To fill this gap, we employed longitudinal photographic and SSO evaluations of 36 abandoned buildings and their immediate surroundings in Chicago for one year (. n=. 587). Results demonstrate the presence and severity of social disorder cues vary across time points and the time of day of observation. There is a relationship between abandoned buildings and social disorder, though the relationship is not a trend. Also, social disorder is diminished around extremely decayed buildings. Lastly, we find that our results are driven by the measurement of places ignored by most SSO studies, including alleys and the rear side of buildings.
AB - With the recent housing crisis, studying abandoned buildings has once again become important. However, it has been some time since abandoned buildings were the subject of direct study, leaving scholars with scant knowledge about the characteristics of abandoned buildings, how they change, and their relationship to neighborhood processes. To fill this gap, we employed longitudinal photographic and SSO evaluations of 36 abandoned buildings and their immediate surroundings in Chicago for one year (. n=. 587). Results demonstrate the presence and severity of social disorder cues vary across time points and the time of day of observation. There is a relationship between abandoned buildings and social disorder, though the relationship is not a trend. Also, social disorder is diminished around extremely decayed buildings. Lastly, we find that our results are driven by the measurement of places ignored by most SSO studies, including alleys and the rear side of buildings.
KW - Abandoned buildings
KW - Disorder
KW - Systematic social observations
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.06.013
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.06.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 26463542
AN - SCOPUS:84938067930
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 54
SP - 177
EP - 194
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
ER -