Urban Deprivation and the Inner City
Urban Deprivation and the Inner City

Author: Colin Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1351713620

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Originally published in 1979. Phenomena such as high levels of unemployment, decaying and vandalised council estates, poor educational achievements by schoolchildren and the population decline in inner cities are just some of the problems challenged by this important work. The contributors from such diverse fields as economics, geography, public administration, social policy and sociology investigate the specific areas where the problematic conditions of unemployment and housing tend to predominate. This title will be of particular interest to students of the social sciences.

Urban Deprivation and the Inner City
Urban Deprivation and the Inner City

Author: Justy Sowards

Publisher: Socialy Press

Published: 2017-06

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781681178257

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Urban decline is the deterioration of the inner city often caused by lack of investment and maintenance. Urban deprivation is a standard of leaving below that of the majority in a particular society that involves hardships and lack of access to resources. Urban decay has no single cause; it results from combinations of inter-related socio-economic conditions -- including the city's urban planning decisions, tight rent control, the poverty of the local populace, the construction of freeway roads and rail road lines that bypass the area, depopulation by suburbanisation of peripheral lands, real estate neighbourhood redlining, and immigration restrictions. Places suffering from urban deprivation have visible differences in housing and economic opportunities been the rich living alongside poor people. The inner city areas of many Global cities have an image of decay with poverty, pollution, crime, overcrowding, poor housing conditions and unemployment. Such problems are more prevalent in inner-city areas than in other areas of the city. Deprivation has been caused by old industries closing down and increasing the unemployment levels which are not tackled due to the old workers not being skilled enough to work in these new factories or line of jobs. This Book, Urban Deprivation and the Inner City, provides an interpretation of inner city problems by examining the processes which fashion them. It presents the studies, which looks at the historical growth and decline of present-day cities. Contributors draw on the efficacy of government policy and the major attempts to pull together the policy implications of their analyses, with many critical of government inner city strategies.

The Truly Disadvantaged
The Truly Disadvantaged

Author: William Julius Wilson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-06-29

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0226924653

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An assessment of the relationship between race and poverty in the United States, and potential solutions for the issue. Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner-city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers essential information and several solutions to policymakers. The Truly Disadvantaged is a wide-ranging examination, looking at the relationship between race, employment, and education from the 1950s onwards, with surprising and provocative findings. This second edition also includes a new afterword from Wilson himself that brings the book up to date and offers fresh insight into its findings. Praise for The Truly Disadvantaged “The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policymakers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they—as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races—would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson’s incisive analysis.” —Robert Greenstein, New York Times Book Review “The Truly Disadvantaged not only assembles a vast array of data gleamed from the works of specialists, it offers much new information and analysis. Wilson has asked the hard questions, he has done his homework, and he has dared to speak unpopular truths.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass.” —David J. Garrow, Washington Post Book World

Deprivation, State Interventions and Urban Communities in Britain, 1968–79
Deprivation, State Interventions and Urban Communities in Britain, 1968–79

Author: Peter Shapely

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-16

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1317125762

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried to address growing concerns about urban deprivation across Britain. It provides unique insights into policy and governance and into the socio-economic and cultural causes and consequences of poverty. Starting with the impact of redevelopment policies, immigration and the rise of the ‘inner city’, this book examines the pressures and challenges that explain the development of policy by successive Labour and Conservative governments. It looks at the effectiveness and limits of different community development approaches and at the inadequacies of policy in tackling urban deprivation. In doing so, the book highlights the restricted impact of pilot projects and reform of public services in resolving deprivation as well as the broader limits of social planning and state welfare. Crucially, it also plots the shift in policy from an emphasis on achieving statutory service efficiencies and rolling out social development programmes towards an ever-greater stress on regeneration and support for private capital as the solution to transforming the inner city.

Urban Deprivation and the Inner City
Urban Deprivation and the Inner City

Author: Colin Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138036482

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Cover"--"Halftitle page "--"Title page " -- "Copyright page " -- "Title page " -- "Copyright page" -- "CONTENTS" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "PREFACE" -- "INTRODUCTION" -- "1 DEFINING URBAN DEPRIVATION Geoff Norris" -- "2 THE CORPORATE DIMENSION OF EMPLOYMENT CHANGE IN THE INNER CITY Peter Dicken and Peter E. Lloyd" -- "3 THE INNER CITY LABOUR MARKET Glen Bramley" -- "4 AREA EXTERNALITIES AND URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT Alan McGregor" -- "5 ACCESS AND DEPRIVATION IN LOCALAUTHORITY HOUSING John English" -- "6 POLITICS AND PLANNING OF URBAN RENEWAL IN THE PRIVATE HOUSING SECTOR Tim Mason" -- "7 LOW INCOME OWNER-OCCUPATION IN THEINNER CITY Valerie A. Karn" -- "8 POPULATION DECLINE IN CITIES Colin Jones" -- "NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Terraformed
Terraformed

Author: Joy White

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1912248697

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An uncompromising wake-up call. Joy White tells uncomfortable truths and blows apart our understanding of racism, crime and policing in our inner-cities. Since the 1980s, austerity, gentrification and structural racism have wreaked havoc on inner-city communities, widening inequality and entrenching poverty. In Terraformed, Joy White offers an insiders view of Forest Gate -- an urban neighbourhood in London -- analysing how these issues affect the black youth of today. Connecting the dots between music, politics and the built environment, it centres on the lived experiences of black youth who have had it all: huge student debt, invisible homelessness, custodial sentences, electronic tagging, surveillance, arrest, police brutality, issues with health and well-being, and of course, loss. Part ethnography, part memoir, Terraformed uses the history of Newham, London as an example of inner-city life across the globe and considers how young black lives are affected by racism, capitalism and austerity.

Inner-City Poverty in the United States
Inner-City Poverty in the United States

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1990-02-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0309042798

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume documents the continuing growth of concentrated poverty in central cities of the United States and examines what is known about its causes and effects. With careful analyses of policy implications and alternative solutions to the problem, it presents: A statistical picture of people who live in areas of concentrated poverty. An analysis of 80 persistently poor inner-city neighborhoods over a 10-year period. Study results on the effects of growing up in a "bad" neighborhood. An evaluation of how the suburbanization of jobs has affected opportunities for inner-city blacks. A detailed examination of federal policies and programs on poverty. Inner-City Poverty in the United States will be a valuable tool for policymakers, program administrators, researchers studying urban poverty issues, faculty, and students.

The Ghetto Underclass
The Ghetto Underclass

Author: William Julius Wilson

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 1993-08-17

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1452254540

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science William Julius Wilson is a leader in the study of the urban underclass. His controversial thesis states that the fragmentation of the black community along class lines has resulted in a group of blacks who have left the inner city for middle-class suburban life, leaving behind the ghetto underclass of very disadvantaged poor. This thesis has had an enormous impact on the study of urban life, race, and society. Originally published as a special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, The Ghetto Underclass addresses questions from theoretical, empirical, and policy perspectives. Wilson and other leading social scientists cover demographic and industrial transitions, family patterns, sexual behavior, immigration, and homelessness of the urban underclass. Wilson′s introduction updates recent work on this topic since publication of the Annals issue. The Ghetto Underclass should be read by all students and professionals of urban studies, ethnic studies, sociology, policy studies, political science, social work, social welfare, and education.

Urban Geography
Urban Geography

Author: Michael Pacione

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13: 0415462010

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.

Inner-city Poverty
Inner-city Poverty

Author: Tamara L. Roleff

Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780737708417

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The United States has been fighting a war on poverty for nearly forty years and yet poverty seems as entrenched as ever in American society. The chapters in this anthology include an examination of urban poverty, government and grass-roots solutions to poverty, and personal views of life in the poor inner-city.