Urban Ills

Carol Camp Yeakey is founding director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies and its Center on Urban Research and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. She also holds faculty appointments as professor of education; of international & area studies; of American culture studies; and of urban studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Vetta Sanders Thompson is associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis where she holds faculty appointments in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work; the Institute of Public Health; and Urban Studies. Anjanette Wells is assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis’ George Warren Brown School of Social Work with faculty appointments in the Institute of Public Health, and Urban Studies.

The chapters cover all of the 'social problems' that impact urban life, from housing shortages (chapter 4) to immigrant integration in suburbs (chapter 25) to gentrification (chapter 10) to the decline in public schools (chapter 12). There is even a chapter on human trafficking (chapter 14). The editors include a study of post-Hurricane Katrina Lower Ninth Ward problems for low-income residents in New Orleans (chapter 29). . . .This social problems approach connected to the editors' interest in social justice drives this wide-ranging two volumes of mostly academic research on the ups and downs of the 20th-century urban U.S. . . .Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students in sociology and business; professional urban planners interested in understanding a wide array of urban social ills.

• Dedication PagePrefacePreface for Volume TwoIntroductionSection Three: Urban HealthChapter Sixteen: ‘Place Matters:’ Contextualizing Health Using a Social Determinants ModelChapter Seventeen: “Social Dis(ease) of African American Males and health”Chapter Eighteen: “Economic Contractions’ Neglected Impact on African Americans’ Mental Health”Chapter Nineteen: “Urban Poverty and Cardiovascular Disease Health”Chapter Twenty: “’Coming to America:’ Mental Health Needs Among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants”Chapter Twenty -one: “The Intersect of Poverty and Health: Are Race and Class Far Behind?”Chapter Twenty-two: “The Flint (Michigan) Adolescent Study: A Longitudinal Examination of Social Support And Achievement Motivational Beliefs of African American Adolescents”Chapter Twenty-three: “Does Area Regeneration Improve Residents’ Health and Well-being? A New Methodological Approach to Measuring the Health Impacts of Area Regeneration in Scotland”Chapter Twenty-four: “The Twenty First Century Gold Coast and Slum”Chapter Twenty-five: “Another Border to Cross: Mexican Immigrant Families and Obstacles to Neighborhood Integration in the Suburbs”Chapter Twenty-six: “The Relationship Between Mass Incidents and Social Inequality in the Social Transformation of China”Chapter Twenty-seven: “Housing and Identity in Postcolonial Portugal”Chapter Twenty-eight: “Exploring the Social Outcome of Brownfield Regeneration in Different types of Deprived Communities: Evidence from Manchester, England”Chapter Twenty-nine: “Disasters as Hyper-Marginalization: Social Abandonment in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans”Chapter Thirty: “Selling Out: The Study of the Transition from Rental Control to Market Rate Housing in New York City”Chapter Thirty-one: “Epilogue: Confronting the Dilemmas of Urban Living in Twenty First Century Global Contexts”