Urban Neighborhood Differentiation
Author : Cynthia Woolever Sayre
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Author : Cynthia Woolever Sayre
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Author : Michael J. White
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1988-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1610445589
Residential patterns are reflections of social structure; to ask, "who lives in which neighborhoods," is to explore a sorting-out process that is based largely on socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and life cycle characteristics. This benchmark volume uses census data, with its uniquely detailed information on small geographic areas, to bring into focus the familiar yet often vague concept of neighborhood. Michael White examines nearly 6,000 census tracts (approximating neighborhoods) in twenty-one representative metropolitan areas, from Atlanta to Salt Lake City, Newark to San Diego. The availability of statistics spanning several decades and covering a wide range of demographic characteristics (including age, race, occupation, income, and housing quality) makes possible a rich analysis of the evolution and implications of differences among neighborhoods. In this complex mosaic, White finds patterns and traces them over time—showing, for example, how racial segregation has declined modestly while socioeconomic segregation remains constant, and how population diffusion gradually affects neighborhood composition. His assessment of our urban settlement system also illuminates the social forces that shape contemporary city life and the troubling policy issues that plague it. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series
Author : Suzanne Infeld Keller
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Cynthia Woolever Sayre
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Neighborhoods
ISBN :
Author : Robert Gutman
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Duncan Timms
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521079648
This detailed study examines the concept of the city as a mosaic of social worlds.
Author : Denise Pumain
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2006-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1402041276
Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts of the system. It is frequently observed within the natural living world as well as in social institutions. According to the authors, hierarchy results from random processes, follows an intentional design, or is the result of the organisation which ensures an optimal circulation of energy for information. This book reviews ancient and modern representations and explanations of hierarchies, and compares their relevance in a variety of fields, such as language, societies, cities, and living species. It throws light on concepts and models such as scaling laws, fractals and self-organisation that are fundamental in the dynamics and morphology of complex systems. At a time when networks are celebrated for their efficiency, flexibility and better social acceptance, much can be learned about the persistent universality and adaptability of hierarchies, and from the analogies and differences between biological and social organisation and processes. This book addresses a wide audience of biologists and social scientists, as well as managers and executives in a variety of institutions.
Author : Paul Grogan
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786722940
Comeback Cities shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nation's urban ills have produced results beyond anyone's expectations, reawakening America's toughest neighborhoods. In the past, big government and business working separately were unable to solve the inner city crisis. Today, a blend of public-private partnerships, grassroots nonprofit organizations, and a willingness to experiment characterize what is best among the new approaches to urban problem solving. Pragmatism, not dogma, has produced the charter-school movement and the police's new focus on "quality of life" issues. The new breed of big city mayors has welcomed business back into the city, stressed performance and results at city agencies, downplayed divisive racial politics, and cracked down on symptoms of social disorder. As a consequence, America's inner cities are becoming vital communities once again.
Author : Robert J. Sampson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 022683400X
"In his magisterial Great American City, Robert J. Sampson puts social scientific data behind an argument that we all feel and experience everyday: the neighborhood you live in has a big effect on your life and the city you live in. Not only does your neighborhood determine where your nearest hospital is, what kind of schools your children can attend, or how many police officers you might encounter (and how they respond to you), it affects how you feel, how you think about the world and your place in it. Like many sociologists before him, Sampson looks to Chicago to make his insightful interventions, based on extensive data collected across the city's diverse neighborhoods. This edition includes a new afterword by Sampson reflecting on changes in Chicago and the country that have occurred since the book was initially published. He notes the increase in gun violence, both among civilians and police killings of civilians, as well as steady or growing rates of segregation despite an increase in diversity. With these changes have come new research, much of it a continuation or elaboration of the work in Great American City. He updates readers on the status of the research initiative that serves as the basis of Great American City, the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), and summarizes how scholars have taken up his work. Many of these scholars have new tools at their disposal with the rise of big data; Sampson remarks on these changes in the field"--
Author : Lening Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1527578917
Adopting a cross-cultural perspective, this book utilizes data collected from several large-scale surveys to assess the neighborhood social control system in a changing urban China. It conceptualizes this system through different types of neighborhood social control at private, parochial, semi-public, public, and market levels. The book highlights the importance of cross-cultural studies of neighborhood effects, and discusses several major issues in such studies along with prospects for future research.