Jennifer R Wolch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 185897 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jennifer R Wolch |
| NOMBRES | Jennifer R |
| APELLIDO | Wolch |
| FIRMA | WOLCH J R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 735 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice
Green Alley Programs
Proximity and Perceived Safety as Determinants of Urban Trail Use
In this study we focus on individual and environmental determinants of urban trail use in three diverse urban settings: Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Explanatory factors include individual psychosocial and health characteristics, distance between home and trail, and land-use and social characteristics of trailside neighborhoods. Model results suggest that intrinsic motivation, general health status, perceived trail safety, perceived miles bet…
Fiscal Consequences of Concentrated Poverty in a Metropolitan Region
Poverty concentration has a significant negative effect on the fiscal health of cities in that it increases spending on antipoverty programs and also raises the cost of providing more general public services such as police and fire protection. Spending patterns among Southern California cities over the last two decades show that poverty strongly influences local public expenditures after controlling for demographic, institutional, and fiscal char…
The Intrametropolitan Geography of Poverty and the Nonprofit Sector in Southern California
This article investigates the geographic distribution of nonprofit social service providers across southern California cities in an attempt to see whether they reach people in poverty. Using 1996 Internal Revenue Service data from the National Center on Charitable Statistics, combined with 1990 census data, the authors find that the number of antipoverty nonprofits and their level of expenditure are higher in poorer cities. Nevertheless, given po…
Radical Openness As Method in Urban Geography
Changing Attitudes toward California's Cougars
The management of California's cougar population has been an ongoing focus of public debate. Over the course of this century, this predator's legal status has changed several times, and in 1990 voters approved the California Wilderness Protection Act, which outlawed the sport hunting of cougars. Since that time, rising rates of human-cougar interactions have generated extensive media coverage of human-cougar conflicts and management policies, sci…
Economics
The World of Homelessness according to Jencks
Tell Them Who I Am
Transspecies Urban Theory
Contemporary urban theory is anthropocentric. In an effort to foreground a transspecies urban theory, we critically assess research on the impacts of urbanization on the natural environment, the range of human-animal interactions in the city, dimensions of urban wildlife ecology, and urban wildlife management and conservation practices. An heuristic device designed to guide the future development of transspecies urban theory is proposed, building…
Differences in health and welfare between homeless and homed welfare applicants in Los Angeles county
On the Streets
THE MOBILITY PATTERNS of homeless people, as they traverse city streets, provide insights into the resources available to homeless people in different urban communities. Mobility paths are also central to the social networks and coping strategies of the homeless. This article reports on ethnographic research conducted at homeless service facilities in two urban Los Angeles-area communities. Findings suggest that service philosophy, the configurat…
Urban Homelessness
(1991). URBAN HOMELESSNESS: AN AGENDA FOR RESEARCH. Urban Geography: Vol. 12, Homelessness, pp. 99-104
Homelessness and Economic Restructuring
The rise in homelessness in U.S. cities is partially an outcome of change in industrial composition and labor requirements which have reduced the income-earning abilities of workers at the lowest skill levels of the labor market. In downtown Los Angeles, absolute job loss in some manufacturing industries, decline in the relative share of low-skill jobs, and the decline in real wages among the low-skilled all contributed to the worsening situation…
Homelessness in America
A second wave of books on homelessness in American has emerged since the crisis was first documented in the early 1980s. A dozen of these books are reviewed in this article. One conclusion of the review is that the urban dimensions of homelessness have yet to receive adequate treatment. An agenda for research on urban homelessness is offered, emphasizing the need to study the role of place in the lives of homeless people, the forces creating urba…
The Federal Response to Homelessness and Its Implications for American Cities
The beginning of a dramatic rise in homelessness in American cities coincided with the election of a Republican administration under the leadership of Ronald Reagan. This paper examines the response of the Reagan Administration to the crisis of homelessness. The ideology of the Administration, its broad social-expenditure priorities, and its programs for health, housing, income maintenance, and human services which affect the homeless are investi…
Public Problems
Landscapes of Despair
(1988). Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness. Economic Geography: Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 284-286
Urban Restructuring and the Not-for-Profit Sector
Urban restructuring has entailed the decline of traditional manufacturing activity and a parallel growth of service industries. These service industries, in turn, have been affected by the privatization of governmental outputs in the face of public sector retrenchment. This paper argues that the expansion of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector, which includes voluntary, nonprofit organizations, charities and philantropies, and tax-exempt businesses, …
Development and Decline of Service-Dependent Population Ghettos
During the past two decades, the delivery of community-based human services for the mentally i l l , physically disabled, elderly, and other service-dependent population groups became more prevalent than treatment in large-scale institutions. Because of the need for community-based services and their clients to be close together, and because of restrictions on their location choice due to economic constraints and community opposition, service-dep…
Spillover effects of human service facilities in a racially segmented housing market
Local Land-Development Policies and Urban Housing Values
This paper evaluates the urban housing price impacts of local state land-development policy, and suggests that local governments have multiple objectives and constraints which shape their policy stance toward growth. Based on analyses of San Francisco Bay Area suburban cities, we find that land-use policies of the local state have important housing price effects, with restrictive policies increasing average home values by approximately 15%. Findi…
The Location of Service-Dependent Households in Urban Areas
This paper provides a framework for the extension of residential location theory to the case of nonworking, service-dependent households. The analysis suggests that theoretically: (1) housing costs and transportation-to-services costs are key considerations in the locational decisions of service-dependents, thus rooting them to the locus of service provision; (2) service facilities locate in close proximity to service-dependent areas of cities in…
Residential Location of the Service-Dependent Poor∗
The pattern of human service facilities in Philadelphia affects and is affected by the distribution of poor, nonworking households who use those facilities. Spatial linkages arise because clients need to be close to support facilities. Service providers seek to locate facilities in areas most accessible to potential users. Minimal cash incomes of service-dependent households and budget limitations of service agencies constrain service-dependents …
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice
Transspecies Urban Theory
Contemporary urban theory is anthropocentric. In an effort to foreground a transspecies urban theory, we critically assess research on the impacts of urbanization on the natural environment, the range of human-animal interactions in the city, dimensions of urban wildlife ecology, and urban wildlife management and conservation practices. An heuristic device designed to guide the future development of transspecies urban theory is proposed, building…
On the Streets
THE MOBILITY PATTERNS of homeless people, as they traverse city streets, provide insights into the resources available to homeless people in different urban communities. Mobility paths are also central to the social networks and coping strategies of the homeless. This article reports on ethnographic research conducted at homeless service facilities in two urban Los Angeles-area communities. Findings suggest that service philosophy, the configurat…
Residential Location of the Service-Dependent Poor∗
The pattern of human service facilities in Philadelphia affects and is affected by the distribution of poor, nonworking households who use those facilities. Spatial linkages arise because clients need to be close to support facilities. Service providers seek to locate facilities in areas most accessible to potential users. Minimal cash incomes of service-dependent households and budget limitations of service agencies constrain service-dependents …
Homelessness and Economic Restructuring
The rise in homelessness in U.S. cities is partially an outcome of change in industrial composition and labor requirements which have reduced the income-earning abilities of workers at the lowest skill levels of the labor market. In downtown Los Angeles, absolute job loss in some manufacturing industries, decline in the relative share of low-skill jobs, and the decline in real wages among the low-skilled all contributed to the worsening situation…
Green Alley Programs
Radical Openness As Method in Urban Geography
Fiscal Consequences of Concentrated Poverty in a Metropolitan Region
Poverty concentration has a significant negative effect on the fiscal health of cities in that it increases spending on antipoverty programs and also raises the cost of providing more general public services such as police and fire protection. Spending patterns among Southern California cities over the last two decades show that poverty strongly influences local public expenditures after controlling for demographic, institutional, and fiscal char…
Changing Attitudes toward California's Cougars
The management of California's cougar population has been an ongoing focus of public debate. Over the course of this century, this predator's legal status has changed several times, and in 1990 voters approved the California Wilderness Protection Act, which outlawed the sport hunting of cougars. Since that time, rising rates of human-cougar interactions have generated extensive media coverage of human-cougar conflicts and management policies, sci…
Urban Homelessness
(1991). URBAN HOMELESSNESS: AN AGENDA FOR RESEARCH. Urban Geography: Vol. 12, Homelessness, pp. 99-104
The Federal Response to Homelessness and Its Implications for American Cities
The beginning of a dramatic rise in homelessness in American cities coincided with the election of a Republican administration under the leadership of Ronald Reagan. This paper examines the response of the Reagan Administration to the crisis of homelessness. The ideology of the Administration, its broad social-expenditure priorities, and its programs for health, housing, income maintenance, and human services which affect the homeless are investi…
Differences in health and welfare between homeless and homed welfare applicants in Los Angeles county
Urban Restructuring and the Not-for-Profit Sector
Urban restructuring has entailed the decline of traditional manufacturing activity and a parallel growth of service industries. These service industries, in turn, have been affected by the privatization of governmental outputs in the face of public sector retrenchment. This paper argues that the expansion of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector, which includes voluntary, nonprofit organizations, charities and philantropies, and tax-exempt businesses, …
Development and Decline of Service-Dependent Population Ghettos
During the past two decades, the delivery of community-based human services for the mentally i l l , physically disabled, elderly, and other service-dependent population groups became more prevalent than treatment in large-scale institutions. Because of the need for community-based services and their clients to be close together, and because of restrictions on their location choice due to economic constraints and community opposition, service-dep…
The Location of Service-Dependent Households in Urban Areas
This paper provides a framework for the extension of residential location theory to the case of nonworking, service-dependent households. The analysis suggests that theoretically: (1) housing costs and transportation-to-services costs are key considerations in the locational decisions of service-dependents, thus rooting them to the locus of service provision; (2) service facilities locate in close proximity to service-dependent areas of cities in…
Spillover effects of human service facilities in a racially segmented housing market
Proximity and Perceived Safety as Determinants of Urban Trail Use
In this study we focus on individual and environmental determinants of urban trail use in three diverse urban settings: Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Explanatory factors include individual psychosocial and health characteristics, distance between home and trail, and land-use and social characteristics of trailside neighborhoods. Model results suggest that intrinsic motivation, general health status, perceived trail safety, perceived miles bet…
Local Land-Development Policies and Urban Housing Values
This paper evaluates the urban housing price impacts of local state land-development policy, and suggests that local governments have multiple objectives and constraints which shape their policy stance toward growth. Based on analyses of San Francisco Bay Area suburban cities, we find that land-use policies of the local state have important housing price effects, with restrictive policies increasing average home values by approximately 15%. Findi…
Residential Location of the Service-Dependent Poor∗
The pattern of human service facilities in Philadelphia affects and is affected by the distribution of poor, nonworking households who use those facilities. Spatial linkages arise because clients need to be close to support facilities. Service providers seek to locate facilities in areas most accessible to potential users. Minimal cash incomes of service-dependent households and budget limitations of service agencies constrain service-dependents …
Local Land-Development Policies and Urban Housing Values
This paper evaluates the urban housing price impacts of local state land-development policy, and suggests that local governments have multiple objectives and constraints which shape their policy stance toward growth. Based on analyses of San Francisco Bay Area suburban cities, we find that land-use policies of the local state have important housing price effects, with restrictive policies increasing average home values by approximately 15%. Findi…
The Location of Service-Dependent Households in Urban Areas
This paper provides a framework for the extension of residential location theory to the case of nonworking, service-dependent households. The analysis suggests that theoretically: (1) housing costs and transportation-to-services costs are key considerations in the locational decisions of service-dependents, thus rooting them to the locus of service provision; (2) service facilities locate in close proximity to service-dependent areas of cities in…
Development and Decline of Service-Dependent Population Ghettos
During the past two decades, the delivery of community-based human services for the mentally i l l , physically disabled, elderly, and other service-dependent population groups became more prevalent than treatment in large-scale institutions. Because of the need for community-based services and their clients to be close together, and because of restrictions on their location choice due to economic constraints and community opposition, service-dep…
Spillover effects of human service facilities in a racially segmented housing market
Urban Restructuring and the Not-for-Profit Sector
Urban restructuring has entailed the decline of traditional manufacturing activity and a parallel growth of service industries. These service industries, in turn, have been affected by the privatization of governmental outputs in the face of public sector retrenchment. This paper argues that the expansion of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector, which includes voluntary, nonprofit organizations, charities and philantropies, and tax-exempt businesses, …
Public Problems
Landscapes of Despair
(1988). Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness. Economic Geography: Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 284-286
The Federal Response to Homelessness and Its Implications for American Cities
The beginning of a dramatic rise in homelessness in American cities coincided with the election of a Republican administration under the leadership of Ronald Reagan. This paper examines the response of the Reagan Administration to the crisis of homelessness. The ideology of the Administration, its broad social-expenditure priorities, and its programs for health, housing, income maintenance, and human services which affect the homeless are investi…
Homelessness in America
A second wave of books on homelessness in American has emerged since the crisis was first documented in the early 1980s. A dozen of these books are reviewed in this article. One conclusion of the review is that the urban dimensions of homelessness have yet to receive adequate treatment. An agenda for research on urban homelessness is offered, emphasizing the need to study the role of place in the lives of homeless people, the forces creating urba…
Urban Homelessness
(1991). URBAN HOMELESSNESS: AN AGENDA FOR RESEARCH. Urban Geography: Vol. 12, Homelessness, pp. 99-104
Homelessness and Economic Restructuring
The rise in homelessness in U.S. cities is partially an outcome of change in industrial composition and labor requirements which have reduced the income-earning abilities of workers at the lowest skill levels of the labor market. In downtown Los Angeles, absolute job loss in some manufacturing industries, decline in the relative share of low-skill jobs, and the decline in real wages among the low-skilled all contributed to the worsening situation…
On the Streets
THE MOBILITY PATTERNS of homeless people, as they traverse city streets, provide insights into the resources available to homeless people in different urban communities. Mobility paths are also central to the social networks and coping strategies of the homeless. This article reports on ethnographic research conducted at homeless service facilities in two urban Los Angeles-area communities. Findings suggest that service philosophy, the configurat…
Differences in health and welfare between homeless and homed welfare applicants in Los Angeles county
Tell Them Who I Am
Transspecies Urban Theory
Contemporary urban theory is anthropocentric. In an effort to foreground a transspecies urban theory, we critically assess research on the impacts of urbanization on the natural environment, the range of human-animal interactions in the city, dimensions of urban wildlife ecology, and urban wildlife management and conservation practices. An heuristic device designed to guide the future development of transspecies urban theory is proposed, building…
The World of Homelessness according to Jencks
Changing Attitudes toward California's Cougars
The management of California's cougar population has been an ongoing focus of public debate. Over the course of this century, this predator's legal status has changed several times, and in 1990 voters approved the California Wilderness Protection Act, which outlawed the sport hunting of cougars. Since that time, rising rates of human-cougar interactions have generated extensive media coverage of human-cougar conflicts and management policies, sci…
Economics
The Intrametropolitan Geography of Poverty and the Nonprofit Sector in Southern California
This article investigates the geographic distribution of nonprofit social service providers across southern California cities in an attempt to see whether they reach people in poverty. Using 1996 Internal Revenue Service data from the National Center on Charitable Statistics, combined with 1990 census data, the authors find that the number of antipoverty nonprofits and their level of expenditure are higher in poorer cities. Nevertheless, given po…
Radical Openness As Method in Urban Geography
Fiscal Consequences of Concentrated Poverty in a Metropolitan Region
Poverty concentration has a significant negative effect on the fiscal health of cities in that it increases spending on antipoverty programs and also raises the cost of providing more general public services such as police and fire protection. Spending patterns among Southern California cities over the last two decades show that poverty strongly influences local public expenditures after controlling for demographic, institutional, and fiscal char…
Proximity and Perceived Safety as Determinants of Urban Trail Use
In this study we focus on individual and environmental determinants of urban trail use in three diverse urban settings: Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Explanatory factors include individual psychosocial and health characteristics, distance between home and trail, and land-use and social characteristics of trailside neighborhoods. Model results suggest that intrinsic motivation, general health status, perceived trail safety, perceived miles bet…
Green Alley Programs
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice
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