Urban Ills (eBook, PDF)

Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts, Volume 2
Redaktion: Yeakey, Carol Camp; Wells, Anjanette; Thompson, Vetta L. Sanders

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 2 is devoted to the myriad issues involving urban health and the dynamics of urban communities and their neighborhoods. The editors define the ecology of urban living as the relationship and adjustment of humans to a highly dense, diverse, and complex environment. This approach examines the nexus between the distribution of human groups with reference to material resources and the consequential social, political, economic, and cultural patterns which evolve as a result of the sufficiency or insufficiency of those material resources. They emphasize the most vulnerable populations suffering during and after the recession in the United States and around the world, and the chapters examine traditional issues of housing and employment with respect to these communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216328643
• Artikelnr.: 74842263

Autorenporträt

Carol Camp Yeakey is founding director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies and its Center on Urban Research and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. She also holds faculty appointments as professor of education; of international & area studies; of American culture studies; and of urban studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Vetta Sanders Thompson is associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis where she holds faculty appointments in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work; the Institute of Public Health; and Urban Studies. Anjanette Wells is assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis' George Warren Brown School of Social Work with faculty appointments in the Institute of Public Health, and Urban Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Page
Preface
Preface for Volume Two
Introduction
Section Three: Urban Health
Chapter Sixteen: 'Place Matters:' Contextualizing Health Using a Social
Determinants Model
Chapter Seventeen: "Social Dis(ease) of African American Males and health"
Chapter Eighteen: "Economic Contractions' Neglected Impact on African
Americans' Mental Health"
Chapter Nineteen: "Urban Poverty and Cardiovascular Disease Health"
Chapter Twenty: "'Coming to America:' Mental Health Needs Among
Undocumented Mexican Immigrants"
Chapter Twenty -one: "The Intersect of Poverty and Health: Are Race and
Class Far Behind?"
Chapter Twenty-two: "The Flint (Michigan) Adolescent Study: A Longitudinal
Examination of Social Support And Achievement Motivational Beliefs of
African American Adolescents"
Chapter Twenty-three: "Does Area Regeneration Improve Residents' Health and
Well-being? A New Methodological Approach to Measuring the Health Impacts
of Area Regeneration in Scotland"
Chapter Twenty-four: "The Twenty First Century Gold Coast and Slum"
Chapter Twenty-five: "Another Border to Cross: Mexican Immigrant Families
and Obstacles to Neighborhood Integration in the Suburbs"
Chapter Twenty-six: "The Relationship Between Mass Incidents and Social
Inequality in the Social Transformation of China"
Chapter Twenty-seven: "Housing and Identity in Postcolonial Portugal"
Chapter Twenty-eight: "Exploring the Social Outcome of Brownfield
Regeneration in Different types of Deprived Communities: Evidence from
Manchester, England"
Chapter Twenty-nine: "Disasters as Hyper-Marginalization: Social
Abandonment in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans"
Chapter Thirty: "Selling Out: The Study of the Transition from Rental
Control to Market Rate Housing in New York City"
Chapter Thirty-one: "Epilogue: Confronting the Dilemmas of Urban Living in
Twenty First Century Global Contexts"