What can be done to alleviate domestic poverty? How is rapid urbanization impacting cities around the world?
These are just two of the provocative questions your students will find in the new edition of Urban Issues. For current coverage of urban politics, your students deserve the balanced reporting of CQ Researcher. Urban Issues gives them a window into how policy is made and implemented and is sure to spark classroom debate. Advancing critical thinking, each report includes the following useful features:
• pro/con box that examines two competing sides of a single question;
• detailed chronology;
• annotated bibliography and web resources; and
• photos, charts, graphs, and maps.
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For current coverage of urban politics, offer your students the balanced reporting of CQ Researcher.
Urban Issues gives them a window into how policy is made and implemented. In addition, useful pedagogical features advance critical thinking.
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Table of Contents
Race, Class, and Ethnicity
1. Housing the Homeless
2. Immigration Debate
3. Domestic Poverty
4. Mortgage Crisis
Education
5. Fixing Urban Schools
Law Enforcement and Homeland Security
6. Fighting Crime
7. Disaster Preparedness
Land Use and Urban Development
8. Rapid Urbanization
9. Aging Infrastructure
10. Mass Transit Boom
11. Downtown Renaissance
12. Property Rights