From the ground up : translating geography into community through neighbor networks

COVER......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES......Page 10
PROLOGUE......Page 16
GEOGRAPHY AND COMMUNITY......Page 22
IT’S THE KIDS, STUPID!......Page 25
OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK......Page 29
NEIGHBORING: A SUPERPOSED RELATION......Page 38
STAGE 2 NEIGHBORING......Page 41
STAGE 3 NEIGHBORING......Page 44
STAGE 4 NEIGHBORING......Page 46
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 48
PROXIMITY......Page 49
BOUNDARIES......Page 50
FACE BLOCKS......Page 52
TERTIARY FACE BLOCKS......Page 53
INTERSECTIONS......Page 55
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 56
LAYERS OF COMPLEX NETWORK STRUCTURES......Page 58
T-COMMUNITIES AND ISLANDS......Page 63
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 67
SELECTING HOMOPHILOUS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORS......Page 69
INFLUENCE......Page 73
HOMOPHILY AND INFLUENCE ACTING ON DIFFERENT STAGES OF NEIGHBORING......Page 77
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 78
CHAPTER SIX: RESPONDENTS, INTERVIEWS, AND OTHER DATA......Page 80
GANG NEIGHBORHOOD ETHNOGRAPHY AND INTERVIEWS......Page 81
STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS......Page 82
COGNITIVE MAPPING AND ALTERNATIVES......Page 83
DATA COLLECTION IN 68 LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORHOODS......Page 86
ADAPTIVE LINK-TRACING......Page 87
THE SECOND LOS ANGELES DATA COLLECTION......Page 88
COLLEGE TOWN CENSUS AND RESAMPLE......Page 89
ADMINISTRATIVE DATA......Page 91
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 93
SELECTING RACIALLY HOMOPHILOUS TERTIARY STREET NEIGHBORS......Page 94
ACCEPTING HETEROGENOUS HIGHER-STAGE NEIGHBORS......Page 97
A DIALOGUE WITH ADMINISTRATIVE DATA......Page 99
SEGREGATING TERTIARY STREET NETWORKS......Page 100
TERTIARY STREET NETWORK BORDERS......Page 105
THE IMPACT OF A SINGLE TERTIARY STREET CONNECTION......Page 110
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 111
THE SUBSTANTIVE REALITY OF PASSIVE CONTACTS......Page 114
THE “LIVED” EXPERIENCE OF TERTIARY STREET NETWORKS......Page 117
A NOTE ABOUT LARGE, MULTIUNIT COMPLEXES......Page 126
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 128
TERTIARY STREET PROXIMITY AND STAGE 3 NEIGHBORS......Page 130
TERTIARY STREET NETWORKS AND STAGE 3 NEIGHBOR NETWORKS......Page 134
MORE THAN PROXIMITY......Page 140
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 148
THREE DEGREES OF NEIGHBORING......Page 150
A NOTE ABOUT THE EXHAUSTIVE CENSUS......Page 155
NEIGHBORING IS A FAMILY RELATION......Page 156
THE IMPORTANCE OF CONVENIENT AVAILABILITY......Page 160
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 165
SOCIAL INFLUENCE NETWORK THEORY......Page 169
BEYOND DENSITY......Page 172
THE HORIZON OF OBSERVABILITY......Page 176
STRUCTURAL COHESION......Page 179
MERELY A MECHANISM?......Page 180
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 182
T-COMMUNITIES, CHILDREN, AND THE HORIZON OF OBSERVABILITY......Page 183
T-COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL CONTROL......Page 185
NEIGHBOR INFLUENCE AND T-COMMUNITY CULTURE......Page 187
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 197
GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORHOOD AND SOCIOLOGICAL NEIGHBORHOOD......Page 199
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY AND TERTIARY STREET NETWORKS......Page 201
AN EFFICACIOUS NEIGHBORHOOD......Page 203
NEIGHBORHOOD EFFICACY AS A FUNCTION OF INFLUENCE NETWORKS......Page 205
INFLUENCE NETWORKS AS A FUNCTION OF TERTIARY STREET NETWORKS......Page 208
MAIN POINTS IN REVIEW......Page 211
SUMMARY......Page 213
WHAT IT ALL MEANS......Page 218
APPENDIX: SURVEY INSTRUMENT......Page 222
NOTES......Page 228
REFERENCES......Page 240
INDEX......Page 258