ABSTRACT
Residential mobility within a city constitutes a major component of urban spatial dynamics and is instrumental to the continuity and change of urban neighborhoods. At the personal level, prolonged residence in the same dwelling or neighborhood is a key to developing deep affection to a place. But, the inability to relocate could also mean the difficulty in adjusting to changing circumstances such as neighborhood decline and en masse relocation of job opportunities in the urban area, hence the spatial mismatch hypothesis (Kain 1968, 1992). For socially deprived groups, the inability to move out of segregated neighborhoods despite their frequent moves is symptomatic of and feeds upon the culture of poverty (Rosenbaum, Reynolds, and Deluca 2002; Wilson 1987).
