Social problems and the city : new perspectives
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Social problems and the city : new perspectives
Oxford University Press, 1989
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This study reviews a range of social problems evident in the modern city, emphasizing British changes during the 1980s and the policy initiatives of the Thatcher government. This second edition has been enlarged to include a set of 20 studies which are broader in scope than the originals. There are four background chapters, followed by reviews of environmental problems, resources and finance, health care, educational change, housing, welfare services, problems of the elderly, women's inequality, unemployment, crime, riots, heroin use and alcoholism. The collection is rounded off by two chapters on the policy response.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Background: social and economic futures for the large city, Brian Robson
- the vulnerable, the disadvantaged and the victimized - who they are and where they live, Paul L.Knox
- politics, society and urban problems, Keith Hoggart
- urban transformation - from problems in to the problem of the city, Roger Lee. Part 2 Specific issues: the environmental problems of cities, Ian Douglas
- resources and finances for the city, Robert J.Bennett
- health-care policy issues, John Mohan
- educational change in the city, Michael G.Bradford
- the housing question, Peter Kemp
- community welfare services in the inner city, Sarah Curtis
- social problems of elderly people in cities, Anthony M.Warnes
- women's inequality in urban Britain, Jane Lewis and Sophie Bowlby
- urban unemployment, Ian R.Gordon
- economic restructuring, the urban crisis and Britain's black population, Vaughan Robinson
- the challenge of urban crime, Susan Smith
- riots as a social problem in British cities, Michael Keith
- heroin use in its social context, Geoffrey Pearson
- alcoholism and alcohol control policy, Christopher J.Smith. Part 3 Policy response: local initiatives for economic regeneration, Andrew P.Church and John M.Hall
- urban intervention in the 1980s, John Eyles.
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