Out of Place in Sheltered Housing? Insider and Outsider Perspectives

Geographers have over the last two decades used spatial metaphors to illustrate the ways that social differences (based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, age and class) are experienced and represented within and between spaces and places, and how they influence the spatial interactions of individuals. These social differences have been shown to impact on the way spaces are read and experienced as inclusionary or exclusionary.