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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Urban Inequality"”.
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The Mirror Project: A Portrait of Urban Inequality
… historically played a vital role in highlighting urban inequality, as seen in the work of Jacob Riis documenting late 19th-century New York City. Today, amidst ongoing gentrification, traditional mapping methods often fall short in capturing the lived experiences of communities. To address this, …
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Effects of housing policies on intra-urban inequality in transitioning China
… to contribute to over one-third of the overall inequality in urban income distribution in China. My hypothesis is that housing inequalities are reinforced in the reform years. In the first half, I discuss three types of general mechanisms: the income-regressive nature of the Housing Provident …
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Decoding urban inequality : the applications of machine learning for mapping inequality in cities of the Global South
… slum settlements and a high degree of spatial inequality. While slums are expanding at a rapid rate, cities in the Global South lack the crucial data to monitor deepening spatial inequalities. Current urban poverty assessments rely on census data, poverty maps or slum demarcation maps, however, …
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Finding work in the city
… rising skill requirements, increased income inequality, and the growth of suburbs as employment centers have altered the dynamics of urban labor markets. Have labor matching processes also changed in this time? And are these processes the same regardless of location? This study argues that …
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Agriculture and industry in the process of economic growth and inequality in Senegal, c.1848-1979
… adjustment in 1979. A study of the economics of urban slavery in mid nineteenth-century Senegal uses the structure of slave prices to argue that urban growth in nineteenth century West Africa was constrained and conditioned by the existence of land abundance in the countryside and a highly …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
<p>This dissertation tracks the remarkable growth of food assistance in the U.S. over the past fifteen years and asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become …
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Point-Based Hukou Policy Direction: An Examination of Reproduction of Social Inequalities in China, 2010-14
… as agricultural/rural hukou and non-agricultural/urban hukou. Institutional capital generally refers to the advantages, rights, entitlements, and resources individuals derive directly from their standing or status within state-sanctioned institutions and legal frameworks. The hukou is a household …