
Urban Issues
Selections from CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher(Editor)
CQ Press
6th Edition
Published on 8. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-4522-2678-1 (ISBN)
Description
Is extreme poverty growing? Is business-style competition a good model for improving schools? Are downtowns making a sustainable comeback? These are just some of the provocative questions your students will find in the new edition of Urban Issues. For current coverage of urban politics, your students will appreciate the balanced and unbiased reporting of CQ Researcher. Urban Issues gives them a window into how policy is made 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 fact, analysis, and opinion surrounding each issue. Advancing critical thinking, each report includes the following useful features: a pron box that examines two competing sides of a single question; a detailed chronology; an annotated bibliography and web resources; and photos, charts, graphs, and maps. Customize your own book! Choose from an extensive collection of CQ Researcher articles and create the Urban Issues that is perfect for your class. Find out more at custom.cqpress.com.
More details
Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
592 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4522-2678-1 (9781452226781)
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Book
01/2011
5th Edition
CQ Press
€55.89
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CQ Researcher is the choice of librarians, researchers, and students seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on the most vital issues shaping our world. Each weekly report offers in-depth, unbiased coverage of a single topic. Written by CQ Press's staff of experienced reporters, these reports provide up-to-date information on a wide range of social, economic, political, environmental, and international issues.
Content
I. EDUCATION
1. School Reform
2. Fixing Urban Schools
II. LAND USE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
3. Blighted Cities
4. Downtown Renaissance
5. Attracting Jobs
6. Rapid Urbanization
7. Aging Infrastructure
8. High-Speed Trains
III. LAW ENFORCEMENT
9. Police Misconduct
IV. RACE, CLASS AND ETHNICITY
10. Domestic Poverty
11. Immigration Conflict
12. Child Poverty
1. School Reform
2. Fixing Urban Schools
II. LAND USE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
3. Blighted Cities
4. Downtown Renaissance
5. Attracting Jobs
6. Rapid Urbanization
7. Aging Infrastructure
8. High-Speed Trains
III. LAW ENFORCEMENT
9. Police Misconduct
IV. RACE, CLASS AND ETHNICITY
10. Domestic Poverty
11. Immigration Conflict
12. Child Poverty