Elijah Anderson's Streetwise (U. of Chicago, 1990) has some useful segments on gentrifcation and examines a ghetto and gentrifying district located side by side. His account led to interesting discussions in my urban classes.
Peter Grahame Dickinson College ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 3:09 PM Subject: TEACHSOC: Urban Poverty class > > I'm teaching an urban poverty course in the spring and was wondering > if anyone could recommend any readings for the following topics. > > 1) Homelessness during the 1980s (I like Liebow's book on Homeless > women, but I'd like another short reading that provides more context.) > > 2) Gentrification (I'd prefer something about recent developments, but > something older or more general would be okay. > > 3) Urban poverty in a global context (I'm planning on showing Born > into Brothels and want to relate the problems of urban poverty in > places like Calcutta back to Marx's arguments about peasants being > forced off the land. So I need an article/chapter that deals > specifically with urban poverty in less developed countries rather than > just poverty. > > Thanks in advance. > > Evan Cooper
