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America's Urban Ghettos

Two developments after 1900 laid the foundations for the black urban ghetto: the industrialization of American and collapse of sou...

21st Century Urban American Housing

and 1970s that saw record numbers of city dwellers move to the suburbs and has brought a new influx of citizens back into the city...

Racial and Urban Policy Economics Issues

In six pages racial issues and their impact upon the economic conditions associated with urban poverty are discussed. Eight sourc...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

Proposal for a Photography Grant

national surveys on the relationship between marriage, cohabitation, and child abuse have not been conducted in the United States,...

Challenges of a City Teacher

the urban teacher. In the following we see one aspect of this concern: "The need to prepare more educators to teach in culturally ...

New York's Urban Environments

This 10 page paper describes various experiences in urban environments in New York City. The environments include a factory, a wel...

Hartford, Connecticut's Adriaen's Landing

In twelve pages this area is examined in an overview of urban renewal politics. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Overview of Empowerment Zones

successful. Reviews have been mixed. Some zones flourished while others did not and while some were justly criticized, voices had ...

Aspects of Urban Concerns

This 5 page paper discusses matters of concern to urban planners and residents, including deconcentration, polarization and sprawl...

Longer Version of a School Voucher Paper

In thirteen pages this paper includes added issues such as voucher effects upon the relationship between administration and teache...

Education, Gore v. Bush

than $1 billion (2000, p.A8) per year in federal assistance for land conservation in particular . Gore supports the use of feder...

Research Questions Formulation

In five pages this paper examines proposed research on sociocultural inequality in the urban placement and assessment of diverse a...

Urban Impact of a Hartford, Connecticut Move by the NFL's New England Patriots

of Connecticut would be awarded those funds if the Patriots were to negotiate with anybody else, including their "home states" of ...

Urban and Suburban School Reforms

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares suburban and urban types of school reforms from program, economic, and political p...

The Growing Middle Class of Urban Immigrants 1877-1900

each other. "Throughout Americas history, White privilege allowed Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, Asians, certain European i...

Suburbs and Their Development

the country, the expanse of the suburban communities has resulted in concern both for the capacity to meet the needs of the suburb...

Emerging Contemporary City and Technological Changes

In six pages this paper examines the changes in technology that influenced the emergence of the modern day city in a consideration...

Recent Background Check Laws in Relation to Urban Issues and Gun Control

This 10 page paper explores recent laws regarding background checks for those who want to buy guns. The writer discusses the chang...

Urban Enclaves by Mark Abrahamson and Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

In seven pages this paper compares these texts in a consideration of urban development in Harlem and elsewhere. There are no othe...

Colorado's State Political Shift from Democrat to Republican

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the 1998 election of a Republican governor in Colorado for more than a century and the polit...

The Relationship Between African Americans and Jews in Baltimore

This 10 page paper considers the views of a number of theorists, including Ernest Burgess, Homer Hoyt, Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth a...

NYC's Subway History

In eight pages this paper traces the subway system of New York City back to 1904 and considers its widespread impact as well as ef...

When Work Disappears by William J. Wilson

This paper presents an analysis of William J. Williams' When Work Disappears The World of the New Urban Poor in five pages. Ther...

Japan and Population Migration

barrier, anecdotal evidence suggests that substantial transfer of Japanese production methods has taken place and that this transf...

Urban Artistry of Jazz Musician Miles Davis

his first name (Long ppg). Perhaps because in his music, the listener is the musicians accomplice, and from bebop to rap, Miles ...

Gangs, Gender, and Geography

has been suggested that standard theories were used to explain the delinquency of males, and that the delinquency of females shoul...

Chicago's Metropolitan Revitalization and the Effects of Gentrification

In five pages this paper examines older urban section revitalization and the gentrification impacts of revitalization efforts. Se...

Urban Modernism

In 5 pages this paper examines All That is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman as it applies to urban areas and the impact of ...

The One Best System by David B. Tyack

In five pages urban education as examined in Tyack's text is analyzed within the context that despite the notion it is 'wise to be...