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Another Landscape of Despair? Charting the ‘Service‐Dependent Ghetto’ in Dunedin
Author(s) -
LAW ROBIN,
GLEESON BRENDAN
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.1998.tb00519.x
Subject(s) - service (business) , phenomenon , geography , population , criminology , sociology , demography , economy , economics , physics , quantum mechanics
Deinstitutionalisation of psychiatric patients since the 1980s has introduced a new population and a new land use to New Zealand's urban areas. This paper reviews the geography of deinstitutionalisation, and investigates whether the North American phenomenon of a service‐dependent ghetto can be identified in Dunedin.