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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mallach, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.