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Neighborhood and Life Chances - How Place Matters in Modern America (Paperback)
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Neighborhood and Life Chances - How Place Matters in Modern America (Paperback)
Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an
adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your
own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized
in urban research as an important variable in understanding
individual and household outcomes. Place matters in education,
physical health, crime, violence, housing, family income, mental
health, and discrimination-issues that determine the quality of
life, especially among low-income residents of urban areas.
Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America
brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to present
the findings of studies in the fields of education, health, and
housing. The results are intriguing and surprising, particularly
the debate over Moving to Opportunity, an experiment conducted by
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, designed to test
directly the effects of relocating individuals away from areas of
concentrated poverty. Its results, while strong in some respects,
showed very different outcomes for boys and girls, with girls more
likely than boys to experience positive outcomes. Reviews of the
literature in education and health, supplemented by new research,
demonstrate that the problems associated with residing in a
negative environment are indisputable, but also suggest the
directions in which solutions may lie. The essays collected in this
volume give readers a clear sense of the magnitude of contemporary
challenges in metropolitan America and of the role that place plays
in reinforcing them. Although the contributors suggest many
practical immediate interventions, they also recognize the vital
importance of continued long-term efforts to rectify place-based
limitations on lifetime opportunities.
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