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The divided city : poverty and prosperity in urban America /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: revival and inequality
- The rise and fall of the American industrial city
- Millennials, immigrants, and the shrinking middle class
- From factories to "eds and meds"
- Race, poverty, and real estate
- Gentrification and its discontents
- Sliding downhill: the other side of the neighborhood change
- The other postindustrial America: small cities, mill towns, and struggling suburbs
- Empty houses and distressed neighborhoods: confronting the challenge of place
- Jobs and education: the struggle to escape the poverty trap
- Power and politics: finding the will to change
- A path to inclusion and opportunity.