| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S26163/01 |
| Title: |
Space and Exclusion: the relationship between physical segregation and economic marginalisation in the urban environment |
| Principal Investigator: |
Vaughan, Professor LS |
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Bartlett Sch of Graduate Studies |
| Organisation: |
UCL |
| Scheme: |
First Grant Scheme Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
01 October 2003 |
Ends: |
30 September 2005 |
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120,797
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Recent research into the geography of deprivation and social exclusion - areas in which pockets of poverty and deprivation persist over time, suggests that there is an underlying spatial effect that contributes to the persistence of urban deprivation. Research into this problem tends to concentrate on the social causes of poverty, and the associated problems of crime and dislocation from society connected to it, but there is a lack of fundamental research into the impact of planning the morphology of urban infrastructure on the spatialisation of poverty. This study proposes to fill that deficiency.The proposed research will analyse data derived from the Booth poverty maps dating from 1889 and 1898-9 and census data from equivalent yearsusing Space Syntax methods (SSM). The use of historic data allows access to individual and household data unavailable for contemporary communities. SSM use computer modelling tools to quantify aspects of the morphology of urban space and have been found to be useful in helping to explain the relationship between the physical planning of buildings and cities and social function. SSM will be used to analyse the underlying spatial structure of the city in order to investigate the impact of the spatial structure itself on poverty rates in order to further the understand of the underlying processes involved in the spatial form of cities. This research is timely in view of current interest in policies regarding dipsersal and clustering of migrant communities.
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