Uneven Urbanscape - Spatial Structures and Ethnoracial Inequality

Uneven Urbanscape draws on decades of empirical research to examine ethnoracial disparity in urban Los Angeles.

List of contents

1. A spatial perspective on stratification; 2. Los Angeles' spatial structure; 3. Home ownership during the great housing crisis; 4. Employment and spatial transportation mismatch; 5. Fragmented education system; 6. The spatial complex and the reproduction of inequality.

About the author

Paul M. Ong is Research Professor and Director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles.Silvia R. Gonzalez is Assistant Director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles and a Doctoral Student in Urban Planning.

Summary

Uneven Urbanscape takes a new theoretically grounded view of how society produces and reproduces ethnoracial economic inequality. Drawing on empirically rich documentation and quantitative analysis, it assesses the patterns, causes, and consequences of urban spatial disparities in the spheres of home ownership, employment, and education.

Product details

• Authors: Silvia R. Gonzalez, Paul Ong, Paul (University of California Ong, Paul M. Ong, Paul M. (University of California Ong
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781107170322
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17032-2
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Stratific; Cambridge Studies in Stratific; Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, urban economics, Regional / urban economics