Urban Ills

Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts, Volume 1

Carol Camp Yeakey, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, Anjanette Wells

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780739177013
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Urban Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 1 examines both the economic impact of urban life and the social realities of urban living. The editors define the ecology of urban living as the relationship and adjustment of humans to a highly dense, diverse, and complex environment. This approach examines the nexus between the distribution of human groups with reference to material resources and the consequential social, political, economic, and cultural patterns which evolve as a result of the sufficiency or insufficiency of those material resources. They emphasize the most vulnerable populations suffering during and after the recession in the United States and around the world. The chapters seek to explore emerging issues and trends affecting the lives of the poor, minorities, immigrants, women, and children.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: “Running in Place”
• Chapter 2: The Finance Economy and Racialized Labor Markets
• Chapter 3: To Heat or to Eat
• Chapter 4: Homeownership Among Low-Income Families
• Appendix A
• Chapter 5: Coming and Going
• Chapter 6: Predictability, Flexibility, Stability
• Chapter 7: Surprising Diversity in Financial Stability
• Chapter 8: Where Did My Neighbors Go?
• Chapter 9: How Urban Shrinkage Impacts on Patterns of Socio-Spatial Segregation
• Chapter 10: Is the Grass Any Greener on the Other Side of the Projects?
• Chapter 11: Revisiting the US Black and French Red Belts
• Chapter 12: Poverty, Families, and Schools
• Chapter 13: The Development of Coping Skills for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Students
• Chapter 14: Human Trafficking in the United States
• Chapter 15: The Third World Near You
• Contributors