Urban Issues

Selections from CQ Researcher
Seventh Edition
Urban Issues
October 2014 | 344 pages | CQ Press
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What are the driving forces behind the mass transit boom? What do lawmakers do about funding aging infrastructure? What are the real causes and solutions to domestic poverty?

These are just some of the provocative questions your students will consider in the new edition of Urban Issues. For current coverage of urban politics, readers will appreciate the balanced and unbiased reporting of CQ Researcher. Urban Issues provides a window into how policy is created and implemented and is sure to spark classroom debate. Each chapter examines the key players, stakes, and lessons for the future, while covering the range of facts, analyses, and opinions surrounding each issue.

Contents

Education

  • 1. School Reform
  • 2. Fixing Urban Schools

Land Use and Urban Development

  • 3. Smart Cities
  • 4. Attracting Jobs
  • 5. Blighted Cities
  • 6. Downtown Renaissance
  • 7. Mass Transit Boom
  • 8. Aging Infrastructure

Race, Class and Ethnicity

  • 9. Minimum Wage
  • 10. Child Poverty
  • 11. Domestic Poverty
  • 12. Housing the Homeless

Description

What are the driving forces behind the mass transit boom? What do lawmakers do about funding aging infrastructure? What are the real causes and solutions to domestic poverty?

These are just some of the provocative questions your students will consider in the new edition of Urban Issues. For current coverage of urban politics, readers will appreciate the balanced and unbiased reporting of CQ Researcher. Urban Issues provides a window into how policy is created and implemented and is sure to spark classroom debate. Each chapter examines the key players, stakes, and lessons for the future, while covering the range of facts, analyses, and opinions surrounding each issue.

Contents

Education

  • 1. School Reform
  • 2. Fixing Urban Schools

Land Use and Urban Development

  • 3. Smart Cities
  • 4. Attracting Jobs
  • 5. Blighted Cities
  • 6. Downtown Renaissance
  • 7. Mass Transit Boom
  • 8. Aging Infrastructure

Race, Class and Ethnicity

  • 9. Minimum Wage
  • 10. Child Poverty
  • 11. Domestic Poverty
  • 12. Housing the Homeless
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Urban Issues

Selections from CQ Researcher


October 2014 | 344 pages | CQ Press

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What are the driving forces behind the mass transit boom? What do lawmakers do about funding aging infrastructure? What are the real causes and solutions to domestic poverty?

These are just some of the provocative questions your students will consider in the new edition of Urban Issues. For current coverage of urban politics, readers will appreciate the balanced and unbiased reporting of CQ Researcher. Urban Issues provides a window into how policy is created and implemented and is sure to spark classroom debate. Each chapter examines the key players, stakes, and lessons for the future, while covering the range of facts, analyses, and opinions surrounding each issue.

Table Of Contents:

  • Education
  • 1. School Reform
  • 2. Fixing Urban Schools
  • Land Use and Urban Development
  • 3. Smart Cities
  • 4. Attracting Jobs
  • 5. Blighted Cities
  • 6. Downtown Renaissance
  • 7. Mass Transit Boom
  • 8. Aging Infrastructure
  • Race, Class and Ethnicity
  • 9. Minimum Wage
  • 10. Child Poverty
  • 11. Domestic Poverty
  • 12. Housing the Homeless

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