TY - JOUR
T1 - City sterilization and poverty management
T2 - Examining a mobility hub in the "redevelopment and enhancement" of downtown Tallahassee
AU - McLeod, Christopher M.
AU - Horner, Matthew I.
AU - Hawzen, Matthew G.
AU - DiDonato, Mark
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - People experiencing homelessness use service centers, shelters, missions, and other voluntary organizations to access material resources and social networks. Because these service hubs have a dense array of resources, people sometimes incorporate them into their daily movements around urban space, which results in patterns or tendencies called mobility systems. Drawing on participant observation, document analysis, and spatial analytics via geographic information systems (GIS), we describe the mobility system organized around one homeless services center in Tallahassee, Florida. Moreover, we present a case study of how this homeless services center was moved away from downtown to an upgraded facility to show how city administrators manage homeless mobility systems when they are deemed unsafe for downtown redevelopment. The case supports previous studies that found punitive and supportive strategies are used together, but adds how mobility and "network capital" can be used to evaluate center relocations in the future.
AB - People experiencing homelessness use service centers, shelters, missions, and other voluntary organizations to access material resources and social networks. Because these service hubs have a dense array of resources, people sometimes incorporate them into their daily movements around urban space, which results in patterns or tendencies called mobility systems. Drawing on participant observation, document analysis, and spatial analytics via geographic information systems (GIS), we describe the mobility system organized around one homeless services center in Tallahassee, Florida. Moreover, we present a case study of how this homeless services center was moved away from downtown to an upgraded facility to show how city administrators manage homeless mobility systems when they are deemed unsafe for downtown redevelopment. The case supports previous studies that found punitive and supportive strategies are used together, but adds how mobility and "network capital" can be used to evaluate center relocations in the future.
KW - Economic development
KW - Geographic information systems
KW - Homelessness
KW - Maps
KW - Marginal mobility
KW - Mobility system
KW - Network capital
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031747469&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3167/TRANS.2017.070308
DO - 10.3167/TRANS.2017.070308
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85031747469
SN - 2045-4813
VL - 7
SP - 94
EP - 111
JO - Transfers
JF - Transfers
IS - 3
ER -