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JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 402-413Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X04264919
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food security; poverty; provisioning; transportation; nonwork travel
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This article focuses on the relationship between the mobility, constraints that low-income families face in their acquisition of food and the coping strategies they develop for this routine task. The motivations and rationale behind travel and provisioning choices of the working poor and the resources available to them are examined by means of a series of semi-structured interviews conducted With members of twenty-six low-income households residing in the Austin, Texas, area. The ways that these households cope with their mobility land economic disadvantage are complex, logical, and varied; depend on their resources and circumstances; quid must be flexible to deal with day-to-day occurrences. Evidence front this study shows that the flexibility, afforded by the automobile widens the spatial and temporal aspects of mobility, allowing for a more extensive search for goods and services. The automobile is an important mode for nonwork travel, even among those households that do not own one. However, the transit and walking remain critical in providing the mobility needed to access food-shopping destinations for these families.
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