1977/12/01 by Michael Dear · 54 citations
Engineering · Health Professions · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Computer science #Core (optical fiber) #Economic geography #Engineering #Geography #Geology #Homelessness and Social Issues #Inner Cities #Inner city #Inner core #Medicine #Mental health #Process (computing) #Psychiatric hospital #Psychiatry #Schizophrenia research and treatment #Space (punctuation) #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1977.tb01164.x
published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 67(4), 588-594 (American Association of Geographers)
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Inner portions of North American cities may be becoming the location of an asylum without walls for psychiatric patients discharged from mental hospitals. This trend represents an organic outgrowth from the moves to diminish the role of the mental hospital and to encourage a community-based mental health. Discharged patients are comparatively mobile and a large proportion of them filter through urban space to an inner city location. This is a result both of formal placement procedures and of an informal process of spatial filtering within the inner core.