The Geography of Opportunity
Title | The Geography of Opportunity PDF eBook |
Author | Xavier de Souza Briggs |
Publisher | James A. Johnson Metro Series |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
"A multidisciplinary examination of the social and economic changes resulting from increased diversity and their implications for economic opportunity and growth given persistent patterns of segregation by race and class, offering both public policy and private initiatives that would respond to those challenges"--Provided by publisher.
The Geography of Opportunity
Title | The Geography of Opportunity PDF eBook |
Author | Xavier de Souza Briggs |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2006-03-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0815797788 |
A popular version of history trumpets the United States as a diverse "nation of immigrants," welcome to all. The truth, however, is that local communities have a long history of ambivalence toward new arrivals and minorities. Persistent patterns of segregation by race and income still exist in housing and schools, along with a growing emphasis on rapid metropolitan development (sprawl) that encourages upwardly mobile families to abandon older communities and their problems. This dual pattern is becoming increasingly important as America grows more diverse than ever and economic inequality increases. Two recent trends compel new attention to these issues. First, the geography of race and class represents a crucial litmus test for the new "regionalism"—the political movement to address the linked fortunes of cities and suburbs. Second, housing has all but disappeared as a major social policy issue over the past two decades. This timely book shows how unequal housing choices and sprawling development create an unequal geography of opportunity. It emerges from a project sponsored by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University in collaboration with the Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Brookings Institution. The contributors—policy analysts, political observers, social scientists, and urban planners—document key patterns, their consequences, and how we can respond, taking a hard look at both successes and failures of the past. Place still matters, perhaps more than ever. High levels of segregation shape education and job opportunity, crime and insecurity, and long-term economic prospects. These problems cannot be addressed effectively if society assumes that segregation will take care of itself. Contributors include William Apgar (Harvard University), Judith Bell (PolicyLink), Angela Glover Blackwell (PolicyLink), Allegra Calder (Harvard), Karen Chapple (Cal-Berkeley), Camille Charles (Penn), Mary Cunningham (Urban Institute), Casey Dawkins (Virginia
The Geography of Opportunity
Title | The Geography of Opportunity PDF eBook |
Author | Xavier N. De Souza Briggs |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005-06-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789780815707 |
"A multidisciplinary examination of the social and economic changes resulting from increased diversity and their implications for economic opportunity and growth given persistent patterns of segregation by race and class, offering both public policy and private initiatives that would respond to those challenges"--Provided by publisher.
Educational Opportunity
Title | Educational Opportunity PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Alexander D Singleton |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2012-11-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1409488675 |
While in recent years the burgeoning Higher Education (HE) sector has been set an agenda of widening participation, few HE institutions have strategies in place for reaching the full range of potential students most likely to benefit from (and successfully complete) their current subject and course offerings. Universities and colleges are often unsystematic in the ways in which they identify schools and colleges for outreach and widening participation initiatives, and sometimes uncoordinated in how they present the full institutional profile of subjects of study in these activities. Using innovative methodology, this book sets out some relevant aspects of the changing HE policy-setting arena and presents a systematic framework for broadening participation and extending access in an era of variable fees. In particular, the book illustrates how HE data and publicly available sources might enable institutions to move from piecemeal analysis of their intake to institution-wide strategic and geographical market area analysis for existing and potential subject and course offerings.
Digital Cities
Title | Digital Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Mossberger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2013-01-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199812934 |
This analysis of how the ability to participate in society online affects political and economic opportunity finds that technology use matters in wages and income and civic participation and voting.
The New Geography of Jobs
Title | The New Geography of Jobs PDF eBook |
Author | Enrico Moretti |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0547750110 |
Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.
Rediscovering Geography
Title | Rediscovering Geography PDF eBook |
Author | Rediscovering Geography Committee |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1997-04-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0309577624 |
As political, economic, and environmental issues increasingly spread across the globe, the science of geography is being rediscovered by scientists, policymakers, and educators alike. Geography has been made a core subject in U.S. schools, and scientists from a variety of disciplines are using analytical tools originally developed by geographers. Rediscovering Geography presents a broad overview of geography's renewed importance in a changing world. Through discussions and highlighted case studies, this book illustrates geography's impact on international trade, environmental change, population growth, information infrastructure, the condition of cities, the spread of AIDS, and much more. The committee examines some of the more significant tools for data collection, storage, analysis, and display, with examples of major contributions made by geographers. Rediscovering Geography provides a blueprint for the future of the discipline, recommending how to strengthen its intellectual and institutional foundation and meet the demand for geographic expertise among professionals and the public.