ABSTRACT
From February to June, 2006, tape-recorded interviews were conducted of 85 residents in the six neighborhoods identified in Chapter 5 as being ‘ highly diverse ’ on multiple dimensions (see Table 6.1 for census statistics of the six neighborhoods). Six students were hired to help conduct the interviews. Interviewers used a semi-structured format, starting with a list of questions (Box 2) that respondents were then encouraged to expand on. The following four issues were of primary interest:
1 Familiarity with, and opinions about, social diversity. 2 Social bonds and connections in the neighborhood. 3 Place-identity – whether respondents identified with place , and what
features seemed to promote that identity (e.g., a special restaurant, the place they grew up in, a street, a favorite park).
