Commentary-the accidental relevance of American urban geography
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American exceptionalism, born out of a remarkable historical-geographic contingency, was steadily undermined by the material and discursive urbanisms of globalization and transnationalism. Studying the American city, disrupted by the overlay of newer transnational connections atop deeply-entrenched older divisions, requires the analytical tools long used to understand the imprint of colonialism and empire on British cities.
Publication Name: Urban Geography
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0272-3638
Year: 2004
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Contingent urban geographies of violent crime: racial segregation and the impact of public housing in Atlanta
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The perspective of crime is explained by focusing on the characteristics of communities which is a unitary scale equated with neighborhoods. An argument that this perspective fails to recognize the importance of broader urban geographic contexts is presented.
Publication Name: Urban Geography
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0272-3638
Year: 2003
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Race, Scale and the Concentration of Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1980 to 1990
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The author examines geographic concentrations of poverty and its relationship to the distribution of minorities. Topics include neighborhood redistribution, census data, and metropolitan populations.
Publication Name: Urban Geography
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0272-3638
Year: 1999
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