Title: YOUTH IN CITIES: A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE; ED. BY MARTA TIENDA
Description: "This volume compares the circumstances of urban youth from a cross-national perspective, illustrating the formidable challenges faced by young people trying to define their place in a rapidly changing world. Using both comparative evidence and case studies, this volume illustrates the common needs of youth throughout the world, despite the highly varied sociocultural circumstances in which they develop, and makes a case for the role of youth as creative social assets and positive forces for social change."--Jacket.
Subjects: Urban youth, City children, Youth with social disabilities, Cross-cultural studies, Children, social conditions, Sociology, urban, Urban Population, Adolescent Behavior, Social Environment, Social Change, Cross-Cultural Comparison