How can depressed communities be upgraded? One approach is to
import settlers with higher incomes. In a unique experiment in
Israel, this approach was utilized, and the results are the focus
of the Ayalon, Ben-Rafael, and Yogev study.
The three authors examine the costs and benefits of an
experiment in community change in Mobiltown. The experiment, which
brought higher status people to a poor community, is evaluated on
the basis of surveys, indepth interviews, and observations. The
research shows that the experiment has mainly resulted in the
status enhancement of the community as a whole. Yet, expectations
for social integration between the new and veteran residents were
not fulfilled. Many of the cultural, economic, commercial, and
social developments were based on some form of implicit
segregation. The dynamics of unbalanced outcomes are demonstrated
in the areas of intergroup attitudes, the formation of social
networks, and in the political and educational arenas. The
Mobiltown experiment demonstrates how the cost of newly introduced
social gaps are countered by the benefits of the status enhancement
of the entire community. An important study for sociologists, urban
planners, and those concerned with social change in Israel.
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