Reconstructing Urban Poverty Policy
Author : Lisa Jean Servon
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Inner cities
ISBN :
Author : Lisa Jean Servon
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Inner cities
ISBN :
Author : Joan Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2001-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1403919879
Our poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there. This volume examines the policies and initiatives now underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize those areas. With contributors from the US, France and the UK the volume explains the nature of specific community building programmes and explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the importance of race and gender in urban regeneration.
Author : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783606614
Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically challenged. Yet, there remains one field of economics where these limitations continue virtually unchallenged: the study of cities and regions in built-environment economics. In this book, Franklin Obeng-Odoom draws on institutional, Georgist and Marxist economics to clearly but comprehensively show what the key issues are today in thinking about urban economics. In doing so, he demonstrates the widespread tensions and contradictions in the status quo, showing how to reconstruct urban economics in order to create a more just society and environment.
Author : Diana Mitlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113624915X
One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth of urban poverty is so frequently under-estimated by governments and international agencies worldwide. The authors also consider whether economic growth does in fact reduce poverty, exploring the paradox of successful economies that show little evidence of decreasing poverty. Many official figures on urban poverty, including those based on the US $1 per day poverty line, present a very misleading picture of urban poverty’s scale. These common errors in definition and measurement by governments and international agencies lead to poor understanding of urban poverty and inadequate policy provision. This is compounded by the lack of voice and influence that low income groups have in these official spheres. This book explores many different aspects of urban poverty including the associated health burden, inadequate food intake, inadequate incomes, assets and livelihood security, poor living and working conditions and the absence of any rule of law. Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature fills the gap for a much needed systematic overview of the historical and contemporary state of urban poverty in the Global South. This comprehensive and detailed book is a unique resource for students and lecturers in development studies, urban development, development geography, social policy, urban planning and design, and poverty reduction.
Author : Franz Vanderschueren
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821337165
This paper reviews the specific actions which municipalities and city governments may take in contributing to urban poverty reduction. It highlights examples of issues, options, and constraints which urban government have to address in grappling with poverty and focuses on municipalities and other city-level government entities as a critical institutional level on intervention, particularly in addressing issues relating to service delivery. (Adapté du résumé des auteurs).
Author : Russell D. Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Joan Higgins
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9780631132523
Author : Warner Bloomberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 1970-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803900066
Author : Joel A. Devine
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release :
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202369716
The debate on persisting poverty in the United States, somewhat dampened for the past decade, has now been fully rekindled. Devine and Wright have entered that debate with an analysis that is both quantitative and qualitative, informed on the one side by urban ethnography and steeped in official statistics and relevant data on the other. The result is an incisive and cogently documented narrative account leading to policy recommendations for a new president and a new era. In The Greatest of Evils, Devine and Wright develop three principal themes. First they argue that poverty is by no means monolithic: each subgroup within the population in poverty tends to have different problems. Secondly, the so-called "underclass" within the poverty population represents a new and especially corrosive development, one that cannot be analyzed in traditional terms nor dealt with in traditions ways. Thirdly, the War on Poverty of the Sixties was not the unmitigated disaster that so many have come to believe, and offered a boldness of vision that today's poverty policies tend to lack. In exploring these themes, the authors show how the social and economic costs of poverty-related problems exceed what it will cost to find remedies that address the underlying causes of residual poverty.
Author : Thomas D. Boston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351480871
Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city only if it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit, initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage-not through artificial inducements, charity, or government. Porter's ideas have prompted endorsement as well as criticism. More importantly, they have inspired a search for new solutions to inner city distress as well as a reassessment of current approaches. The Inner City defines a core debate in the United States over the future of a racially divided urban America. It is of inestimable importance to policy analysts, government officials, African American studies scholars, urban studies specialists, sociologists, and all those concerned with inner city revitalization.