Youth in Cities
Subtitle: A Cross-National Perspective (The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence)
Contributors: Marta Tienda (Editor); William Julius Wilson (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521809085
Subjects: Adolescents; Population & demography; Social research & statistics; Urban communities; Psychology; Developmental - Adolescent; Sociology; Youth with social disabilities; General; Life Stages - Adolescence; Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology; Cross-cultural studies; City children; Urban youth
First sentence: The share of youth residing in urban areas surpassed 50% by the turn of the 21st century and is projected to rise further because of high fertility and continued rural-urban migration (United Nations, 1993:5).