Urban Issues
Selections from CQ Researcher
Seventh Edition
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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.
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.
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
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.
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