Doctoral Dissertation Research: Boundaries and Local Resource Access in Gentrifying Neighborhoods.

在高档化的社区中，社区居民如何体验社会隔离和社会经济多样性？历史上，对社区的研究探索了隔离社区和同质社区之间的社会经济多样性，发现当地环境影响个人结果，如受教育程度。然而，高档化的城市正在经历密度和人口变化的增加，因此社区内的多样性正在增加。本文研究了随着人口和社区环境的中产阶级化，居民对当地资源的获取和利用是如何变化的。我利用基于地点的访谈与在布鲁克林皇冠高地（Crown Heights）士绅化社区进行的日常流动模式的地理空间数据相结合，探讨了居民如何构建和体验社会经济多样性，具体问题是：(1)居民如何感知和协商对当地资源（如杂货店和医疗服务）的访问和所有权？(2)居民对使用权和所有权的认知如何与使用权、种族、阶级、性别和年龄状况相交叉？(3)这种对当地资源的获取如何影响物质不平等和日常出行时间？美国城市的中产阶级化在以前更加同质化的地方产生了越来越多的社会经济多样性，这个项目试图理解这种多样性是如何在地方层面上经历和处理的。

How do neighborhood residents experience social isolation and socioeconomic diversity in gentrifying neighborhoods? Studies of neighborhoods have historically explored socioeconomic diversity between segregated and homogeneous neighborhoods, finding local context impacts individual outcomes, such as educational attainment. However, gentrifying cities are experiencing an increase in density and population change, such that diversity is increasing within neighborhoods. This dissertation examines how access to and use of local resources changes for residents as population and neighborhood context gentrify. Using place-based interviews paired with geo-spatial data on daily mobility patterns conducted in the gentrifying neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn I explore how socioeconomic diversity is constructed and experienced by residents, specifically asking: (1) how do residents perceive and negotiate access to and ownership over local resources, such as grocery stores and health services? (2) How do perceptions of access and ownership intersect with tenure, race, class, gender, and age status of residents? and (3) How does this access to local resources impact material inequality and daily travel time? The gentrification of American cities is producing growing socioeconomic diversity in places that have formerly been much more homogeneous, and this project seeks to understand how that diversity is experienced and dealt with at the local level.