
Urban Issues
Selections from CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher(Author)
CQ Press
5th Edition
Published on 26. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-60871-707-1 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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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Edition
5th 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
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60871-707-1 (9781608717071)
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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
PART ONE: RACE, CLASS, AND ETHNICITY
Housing the Homeless
Immigration Debate
Domestic Poverty
Mortgage Crisis
PART TWO: EDUCATION
Fixing Urban Schools
PART THREE: LAW ENFORCEMENT AND HOMELAND SECURITY
Fighting Crime
Disaster Preparedness
PART FOUR: LAND USE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Rapid Urbanization
Aging Infrastructure
Mass Transit Boom
Downtown Renaissance
Property Rights
Housing the Homeless
Immigration Debate
Domestic Poverty
Mortgage Crisis
PART TWO: EDUCATION
Fixing Urban Schools
PART THREE: LAW ENFORCEMENT AND HOMELAND SECURITY
Fighting Crime
Disaster Preparedness
PART FOUR: LAND USE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Rapid Urbanization
Aging Infrastructure
Mass Transit Boom
Downtown Renaissance
Property Rights