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REAL ESTATE SALESMEN AND RESIDENTIAL RELOCATION DECISIONS
Author(s) -
Bordessa Ronald
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1978.tb01527.x
Subject(s) - relocation , residence , context (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , identification (biology) , structuring , real estate , estate , residential real estate , process (computing) , business , economic geography , geography , demographic economics , economics , computer science , finance , botany , archaeology , biology , programming language , operating system
A decade ago Simmons (1968) reviewed studies in “an important, but relatively neglected, aspect of migration, namely changes in residence that take place within a city.” Since the appearance of Simmons' review intra‐urban residential mobility has generated a burgeoning literature underpinned by the assumption that it is a significant mechanism contributing to the structuring of urban space. The literature focuses principally on residential relocation and its identification as a process rather than as a set of events to be explained. Central to the process orientation is the assumption that changes of residence are the expression of a set of decisions made by households. The major deficiency of the literature to date is its failure to specify an appropriate context within which to analyse such decisions.