Urban ills : twenty-first-century complexities of urban living in global contexts. Volume one

Urban ills : Volume one / twenty-first-century complexities of urban living in global contexts. edited by Carol Camp Yeakey, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, and Anjanette Wells.

Urban Ills: Confronting Twenty First Century Dilemmas of Urban Living in Global Contexts 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 e...

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Other Authors: Yeakey, Carol Camp (Editor), Thompson, Vetta Sanders (Editor), Wells, Anjanette (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
Urbanization > Social aspects.
urban sociology.
Sociology, Urban
Urbanization > Social aspects
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Introduction; Ch01. "Running in Place"; Ch02. The Finance Economy and Racialized Labor Markets; Ch03. To Heat or to Eat; Ch04. Homeownership Among Low-Income Families; Appendix A; Ch05. Coming and Going; Ch06. Predictability, Flexibility, Stability; Ch07. Surprising Diversity in Financial Stability; Ch08. Where Did My Neighbors Go?; Ch09. How Urban Shrinkage Impacts on Patterns of Socio-Spatial Segregation; Ch10. Is the Grass Any Greener on the Other Side of the Projects?; Ch11. Revisiting the US Black and French Red Belts; Ch12. Poverty, Families, and Schools
  • Ch13. The Development of Coping Skills for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics StudentsCh14. Human Trafficking in the United States; Ch15. The Third World Near You; Index; Contributors

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