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klankvaardighede te ontwikkel.
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.
Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally
different ways, but the relationship between gender and city
environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play
different roles, frequent different public areas, and face
different health risks. Women suffer disproportionately from
disease, injury, and violence because their access to resources is
often more limited than that of their male counterparts. Yet, when
women are healthy and safe, so are their families and communities.
Urban policy makers and public health professionals need to
understand how conditions in densely populated places can help or
harm the well-being of women in order to serve this large segment
of humanity. Women's Health and the World's Cities illuminates the
intersection of gender, health, and urban environments. This
collection of essays examines the impact of urban living on the
physical and psychological states of women and girls in Africa,
Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Urban planners,
scholars, medical practitioners, and activists present original
research and compelling ideas. They consider the specific needs of
subpopulations of urban women and evaluate strategies for designing
spaces, services, and infrastructure in ways that promote women's
health. Women's Health and the World's Cities provides urban
planners and public health care providers with on-the-ground
examples of projects and policies that have changed women's lives
for the better.
For the first time in history, the majority of the world's
population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been
fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world,
exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos,
Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming years, as both the number and
scale of cities continue to increase, the most important matters of
social policy and economic development will necessarily be urban
issues. Urbanization, across the world but especially in Asia and
Africa, is perhaps the critical issue of the twenty-first century.
Global Urbanization surveys essential dimensions of this growth and
begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half
century. Drawing from many disciplines, the contributors tackle
issues ranging from how cities can keep up with fast-growing
housing needs to the possibilities for public-private partnerships
in urban governance. Several essays address the role that
cutting-edge technologies such as GIS software, remote sensing, and
predictive growth models can play in tracking and forecasting urban
growth. Reflecting the central importance of the Global South to
twenty-first-century urbanism, the volume includes case studies and
examples from China, India, Uganda, Kenya, and Brazil. While the
challenges posed by large-scale urbanization are immense, the
future of human development requires that we find ways to promote
socially inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and
resilient infrastructure. The timely and relevant scholarship
assembled in Global Urbanization will be of great interest to
scholars and policymakers in demography, geography, urban studies,
and international development.
The MisEducation of A Minor, Book 1 in the 'Songs My Father Taught
Me' saga, follows the life of Johnny 'Lee' Belamo as he navigates
the world after the murder of his mother. It chronicles his
transition from quiet only child to bad boy baby brother. He is
forced to quickly learn his place in his new family, while trying
to understand his place in the greater world stage. Forces of both
good and evil are converging on the teen as he discovers the true
scope and magnitude of his abilities. We will see how a boy who
avoids being special deals with being the most special boy in a
land of special people. His friends know him as fun and playful but
his enemies... will learn quickly to fear the Eyes that BURN.
The story of how I first got introduced to the Greyhound Racing
World, as the Track Announcer at the Woodlands Racetrack in Kansas
City, KS, back when the track first opened in 1989. This book
recalls my many memories and experiences at that track and the road
that ultimately led me to become the on-air host for the popular
Internet Racing show known as Bigjackpotbetting.com, that is
currently sweeping the nation and the world bringing live Greyhound
Racing Action directly into the homes of the racing fans.
Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing
world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through
incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Slums: How
Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized
settlements in rapidly growing cities are not divorced from market
forces; rather, they must be understood as complex environments
where state policies and market actors still do play a role. In
this volume, contributors examine how the form and function of
informal real estate markets are shaped by legal systems governing
property rights, by national and local policy, and by historical
and geographic particularities of specific neighborhoods. Their
essays provide detailed portraits of individuals and community
organizations, revealing in granular detail the working of informal
real estate markets, and they review programs that have been
implemented in unconventional settlements to provide lessons about
the effectiveness and implementation challenges of different
approaches. Chapters explore the relationships between informality,
state policies, and market forces from a range of disciplinary
perspectives and on different scales, from an analysis of the
relationship between regulations and housing in 600 developing
world cities to an ethnographic account of the buying and selling
of houses in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. While many of the book's
contributors focus on the emerging economies of India and Brazil,
the conclusions drawn illustrate dynamics relevant to developing
countries throughout the Global South. The diversity of
perspectives combines to create a rich understanding of an
important, complex, and understudied topic. Contributors: Arthur
Acolin, Sai Balakrishnan, Eugenie L. Birch, Jose Brakarz, Shahana
Chattaraj, Sebastian Galiani, David Gouverneur, Yvonne Mautner,
Paavo Monkkonen, Vinit Mukhija, Janice E. Perlman, Lucas Ronconi,
Bish Sanyal, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Patricia Cezario Silva, Susan M.
Wachter.
Childhood obesity is a serious health problem that has adverse and
long-lasting consequences for individuals, families, and
communities. The magnitude of the problem has increased
dramatically during the last three decades and, despite some
indications of a plateau in this growth, the numbers remain
stubbornly high. Efforts to prevent childhood obesity to date have
focused largely on school-aged children, with relatively little
attention to children under age 5. However, there is a growing
awareness that efforts to prevent childhood obesity must begin
before children ever enter the school system.
Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies reviews factors related
to overweight and obese children from birth to age 5, with a focus
on nutrition, physical activity, and sedentary behavior, and
recommends policies that can alter children's environments to
promote the maintenance of healthy weight. Because the first years
of life are important to health and well-being throughout the life
span, preventing obesity in infants and young children can
contribute to reversing the epidemic of obesity in children and
adults. The book recommends that health care providers make parents
aware of their child's excess weight early. It also suggests that
parents and child care providers keep children active throughout
the day, provide them with healthy diets, limit screen time, and
ensure children get adequate sleep.
In addition to providing comprehensive solutions to tackle the
problem of obesity in infants and young children, Early Childhood
Obesity Prevention Policies identifies potential actions that could
be taken to implement those recommendations. The recommendations
can inform the decisions of state and local child care regulators,
child care providers, health care providers, directors of federal
and local child care and nutrition programs, and government
officials at all levels.
Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted
described his most famous project, the design of New York's Central
Park, as "a democratic development of highest significance." Over
the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown. In
twenty-first-century America, not only open space but also other
issues of sustainability--such as potable water and carbon
footprints--have become crucial elements in the quality of life in
the city and surrounding environment. Confronted by a U.S.
population that is more than 70 percent urban, growing concern
about global warming, rising energy prices, and unabated
globalization, today's decision makers must find ways to bring
urban life into balance with the Earth in order to sustain the
natural, economic, and political environment of the modern city.In
"Growing Greener Cities," a collection of essays on urban
sustainability and environmental issues edited by Eugenie L. Birch
and Susan M. Wachter, scholars and practitioners alike promote
activities that recognize and conserve nature's ability to sustain
urban life. These essays demonstrate how partnerships across
professional organizations, businesses, advocacy groups,
governments, and individuals themselves can bring green solutions
to cities from London to Seattle. Beyond park and recreational
spaces, initiatives that fall under the green umbrella range from
public transit and infrastructure improvement to aquifer protection
and urban agriculture."Growing Greener Cities" offers an overview
of the urban green movement, case studies in effective policy
implementation, and tools for measuring and managing success.
Thoroughly illustrated with color graphs, maps, and photographs,
"Growing Greener Cities" provides a panoramic view of urban
sustainability and environmental issues for green-minded city
planners, policy makers, and citizens.
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