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An emerging body of research suggests that those who reside in socially and economically

marginalized places may be marked by a stigma of place, referred to as

spatial stigma, which influences their sense of self, their daily experiences, and their

relations with outsiders. Researchers conducted 60 semistructured interviews at

partnering community-based organizations during summer 2011 with African

American and Latina/o, structurally disadvantaged youth of diverse gender and

sexual identities who were between 18 and 26 years of age residing in Detroit,

Michigan. The disadvantaged structural conditions and dilapidated built environment

were common themes in participants’ narratives. Beyond these descriptions, participants’ …

Although the spatial structure of employment in large US metropolitan regions is a well-researched topic, few studies focus on medium-sized and small US metropolitan regions. Consequently, there is no overall typology relating small-to-medium urban form to employment distribution. We address this gap by investigating the spatial structure of employment in 356 metropolitan regions. We conceptualize six typologies based on three categories that have overlapping properties: “monocentricity,” “polycentricity,” and “generalized dispersion.” The study has three main findings. First, the three types of urban form that we identify as “hybrid” outnumber the three “pure” types by almost four to one. Second, job …