Mental Health and the Urban Environment: Some Doubts and Second Thoughts

Abstract

Interviews assessing perceptions and evaluations of the residential environment and selected indicators qf mental health and well-being were conducted with 1000 residents of four carefully selected census tracts of Detroit. Two tracts were stress (low on socioeconomic indices and high on rates of crime and marital and residential instability) and two were low stress areas; one tract in each group was predominantly black or largely white.