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Urban sores : on the interaction between segregation, urban decay, and deprived neighbourhoods / Hans Skifter Andersen.
LIBRA HT119 .S56 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skifter Andersen, Hans.
- Series:
- Urban and regional planning and development
- Urban and regional planning and development series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns.
- Neighborhoods.
- Segregation.
- Slums.
- People with social disabilities--Housing.
- People with social disabilities.
- Marginality, Social.
- Urban renewal.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- 2 Social Segregation in Cities 13
- 3 The Appearance of Urban Decay and Deprivation in Western Cities 46
- 4 Explanations of Decay in the Urban Housing Market 55
- 5 Processes of Social and Physical Decay in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods 98
- 6 Understanding Deprived Neighbourhoods
- the Connection between Segregation and Neighbourhood Decay 125
- 7 Efforts to Combat Urban Decay 130.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754633055
- OCLC:
- 50235049
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