Urban society
Subtitle: the shame of governance
By: edited by Robert Grantham, Levon Chorbajian
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sloan Pub.; Sloan Educational Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781597380270
Table of contents: title: How we got here; title: Forces shaping urban poverty / William Julius Wilson; title: Fate of American cities / Howard P. Chudacuff and Judith E. Smith; title: An old debate still germane and a vital connection seldom made / Levon Chorbajian; title: Construction of consent / David Harvey; title: Institutional imbalance and crime : war against drugs / Marc Mauer; title: Criminal justice through fear / Mark Davis; title: Profiting from prisons / Joel Dyer; title: Police and the black male / Elijah Anderson; title: Institutional imbalance and spatial arrangements promoting segregation / Peter Dreier, John Molenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom; title: This is Detroit USA, not Russia / Jeanie Wylie; title: Sports stadiums, good or bad / George Lipsitz; title: Cheating urban farmlands in LA / Henrik Lebuhn; title: Solving ghetto America / Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton; title: Moving out of Cabrini Green, Chicago / Deirdre Pfeiffer; title: Institutions: race, class, and education; title: Business elites re-claiming New York / Kim Moody; title: The middle-man in the city / Mary Patillo; title: Rights to the city and Katrina / Jay Arena; title: Special taxes in Baltimore, good or bad / Meghan Ashlin Rich; title: Poverty : a discussion of culture / William Julius Wilson; title: Other institutional implications; title: The media bad-mouthing the city / Peter Dreier; title: Downing mass transit / Joe Feagin and Robert Parker; title: Environmental dumping in Dallas/Houston / Robert Bullard; title: Unhealthy and sick in LA/ Jonathan Cohn.