Living Space in an Urban Ghetto†
This research has been supported by the Bronx State Hospital, The Jewish Family Service of New York, the Van Amerigen Foundation and by Grant 15977-03 from the Metropolitan Division of N. I. M. H.
Abstract
In this paper I will outline the idea of human territoriality and then describe some territorial arrangements and behaviors in the households we have studied.
The environment of people is prestructured socially and temporally. For two years our research team has been studying the prestructured living spaces and the territorial behavior of urban people in a central Bronx ghetto. We have conducted interviews in about 1800 households, photographically surveyed space layouts in 35, and videotaped space usage and territorial behavior intensively in six. In the main, our data is about Puerto Ricans and Afro-Americans; we have a little data about Italian-Americans, but the Jewish and old British American families have moved out of the East Tremont area.
