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Clearing the Way
Edward G. Goetz
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paperback. Concentrating primarily on a case study in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, Goetz (urban and regional planning, U. of Minnesota) examines the premises underlying attempts to scatter urban clusters of poor people, and the potential effects and political dynamics. Annotation (c) Book News Series: Urban Institute Press. Num Pages: 326 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPQB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
Over the past three decades, the concentration of poverty in America’s inner cities has exacerbated a wide range of social problems. School delinquency, school dropout, teenage pregnancy, out-of-wedlock childbirth, violent crime, and drug abuse are magnified in neighborhoods where the majority of residents are poor. In response, policymakers have embarked on a large and coordinated effort to “deconcentrate” the urban poor by dispersing the residents of subsidized housing. Despite the clean logic of these policies, however, deconcentration is not a clean process. In Clearing the Way, Edward Goetz goes beyond the narrow analysis that has informed the debate so far, ... Read more
Over the past three decades, the concentration of poverty in America’s inner cities has exacerbated a wide range of social problems. School delinquency, school dropout, teenage pregnancy, out-of-wedlock childbirth, violent crime, and drug abuse are magnified in neighborhoods where the majority of residents are poor. In response, policymakers have embarked on a large and coordinated effort to “deconcentrate” the urban poor by dispersing the residents of subsidized housing. Despite the clean logic of these policies, however, deconcentration is not a clean process. In Clearing the Way, Edward Goetz goes beyond the narrow analysis that has informed the debate so far, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Urban Institute Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Series
Urban Institute Press
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780877667124
SKU
V9780877667124
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