The Divided City Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Mallach, Alan (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociology, Urban.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape architecture.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Urban Ecology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Landscape Architecture.; Community & Population Ecology.

Who really benefits from urban revival? Cities, from trendy coastal areas to the nation's heartland, are seeing levels of growth beyond the wildest visions of only a few decades ago. But vast areas in the same cities house thousands of people living in poverty who see little or no new hope or o...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Revival and Inequality
• Chapter 1: The Rise and Fall of the American Industrial City
• Chapter 2: Millennials, Immigrants, and the Shrinking Middle Class
• Chapter 3: From Factories to "Eds and Meds"
• Chapter 4: Race, Poverty, and Real Estate
• Chapter 5: Gentrification and Its Discontents
• Chapter 6: Sliding Downhill: The Other Side of Neighborhood Change
• Chapter 7: The Other Post-Industrial America: Small Cities, Mill Towns, and Struggling Suburbs
• Chapter 8: Empty Houses and Distressed Neighborhoods: Confronting the Challenge of Place
• Chapter 9: Jobs and Education: The Struggle to Escape the Poverty Trap
• Chapter 10: Power and Politics: Finding the Will to Change
• Chapter 11: A Path to Inclusion and Opportunity.