Urban Ills

Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts
Herausgeber: Yeakey, Carol Camp; Wells, Anjanette; Thompson, Vetta L. Sanders

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Produktbeschreibung

Urban Ills: Confronting Twenty First Century Dilemmas of Urban Living in GlobalContexts brings together original research by a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars to examine contemporary dilemmas impacting urban life in global contexts, following the latest global economic downturn. Focusing extensively on vulnerable populations, economic, social, health and community dynamics are explored as they relate to human adaptation to complex environments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 889g
• ISBN-13: 9780739177006
• ISBN-10: 0739177001
• Artikelnr.: 38529359

Autorenporträt

Carol Camp Yeakey is founding director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies and its Center on Urban Research and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. She also holds faculty appointments as professor of education; of international & area studies; of American culture studies; and of urban studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Vetta Sanders Thompson is associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis where she holds faculty appointments in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work; the Institute of Public Health; and Urban Studies. Anjanette Wells is assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis' George Warren Brown School of Social Work with faculty appointments in the Institute of Public Health, and Urban Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Page Preface Introduction Section One: Economic Impact on Urban
Life Chapter One: "'Running in Place:' Low Wage Work in a High Tech
Economy" Chapter Two: "Social Closure or Financialization: Stratification
and Race in the Service Economy" Chapter Three: "To Heat or to Eat: The
Detrimental Effects of Competing Commodity Costs on Low Income Families"
Chapter Four: "Home Ownership among the Low Income in Boston,
Massachusetts" Chapter Five: "Coming and Going: Effects of Change in
Household Composition on the Economic Wellbeing of Families with Children"
Chapter Six: "Predictability, Flexibility, Stability: Economic
Restructuring and Low Wage 'Women's Work'" Chapter Seven: "Surprising
Diversity in Financial Stability: A Cluster Analysis of Center for Working
Families Clients in Twelve (12) Low Income Chicago Communities" Section
Two: Social Realities of Urban Living Chapter Eight: "Where Did My
Neighbors Go? Revealing Geographies of Post- Chapter Nine: "How Urban
Shrinkage Impacts on Patterns of Socio-Spatial Segregation: Insights from
Case Studies in Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic" Chapter Ten: "Is
the Grass Any Greener on the Other Side of the Projects? Public Housing
Relocation and Resident Outcomes in Atlanta, Georgia" Chapter Eleven:
Revisiting the U.S. Black and French Red Belts: Parallel Themes and a
Shared Dilemma" Chapter Twelve: "Poverty and Education" Chapter Thirteen:
"The Development of Coping Skills for Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics Students: Transitioning from Minority to Majority Environments"
Chapter Fourteen: "Human Trafficking in the U.S.: Globalization's Impact on
Dispossessed, Dominated and Discarded Populations" Chapter Fifteen: "The
Third World Near You: The American Racial Divide"