Urban Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 61(16), P. 3015 - 3027
Published: Nov. 27, 2024
Neighbourhoods are salient for many dimensions of individuals’ social and economic well-being, yet the impacts rapidly emerging digital information communication technologies (DICTs) on neighbourhoods processes within them understudied. This gap motivates this Special Issue, themes which we introduce here. We provide an overarching conceptual framework topics, conceptualisations empirical results 11 constituent research papers can be placed. Our posits multiple, mutually causal interrelationships between each element in triad neighbourhoods, individual residents’ characteristics actions. In focus role(s) DICTs their interplay with processes. These alter traditional housing search patterns, sometimes reinforcing existing segregation, but they also present opportunities greater access to potential integration. The issue’s papers, contributed by scholars from various global contexts, explore diverse aspects these themes. They examine how mediate neighbourhood change influencing local choices, amplifying or mitigating stigma transforming cohesion. By offering a rich exploration, special issue aims deepen our understanding transformative role that play urging further into implications urban
Language: Английский