Residential Crowding in Urban America
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- ISBN 9780520315723
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 2022
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Residential Crowding in Urban America challenges the prevailing mid-1970s orthodoxy that equated human crowding with pathology. Based on research first developed for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and revised from a dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley, the book shifts the study of crowding from speculative laboratory models to sociological analyses rooted in real households and neighborhoods. Using national survey data, the author investigates how household crowding and neighborhood density affect housing satisfaction, family life, social relations, and overall well-being. Rather than treating density as an automatic source of deviance or disorder, the study emphasizes people’s lived experiences of their homes and communities, offering a theoretically grounded framework for understanding crowding as a social problem.
Organized into four parts, the book explores methods of studying crowding; household overcrowding, measured as persons per room; neighborhood density, measured as residents per acre; and the connections between crowding, social withdrawal, and claims of pathology. The author concludes that while overcrowding does matter, simplistic assumptions about its effects have obscured more subtle questions of how families adapt, how neighborhoods function, and what conditions truly disrupt social life. By dispelling myths and offering new directions for research, Residential Crowding in Urban America provides essential insight for policymakers, planners, and scholars alike. It situates housing conditions at the center of debates about quality of life, inequality, and urban development, laying the groundwork for future inquiry into how Americans live together in increasingly dense environments.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Organized into four parts, the book explores methods of studying crowding; household overcrowding, measured as persons per room; neighborhood density, measured as residents per acre; and the connections between crowding, social withdrawal, and claims of pathology. The author concludes that while overcrowding does matter, simplistic assumptions about its effects have obscured more subtle questions of how families adapt, how neighborhoods function, and what conditions truly disrupt social life. By dispelling myths and offering new directions for research, Residential Crowding in Urban America provides essential insight for policymakers, planners, and scholars alike. It situates housing conditions at the center of debates about quality of life, inequality, and urban development, laying the groundwork for future inquiry into how Americans live together in increasingly dense environments.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
