Browsing by Author "Orum, Anthony"

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    Companion to Urban and Regional Studies
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021) Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Javier Ignacio; Orum, Anthony; Vicari Haddock, Serena
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    Conclusions
    (Wiley, 2021) Orum, Anthony; Ruiz-Tagle V., Javier; Vicari Haddock, Serena
    This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on European cities and Latin American cities, in particular, pointed to how cities in their regions may best be understood today as the products of unique configurations of circumstances and events, not simply of global forces. It draws on South Asian cities and regions are especially sensitive to the political issues that have arisen from rapid urban growth, especially to the mistreatment of women. Theoretical frameworks, in our view, can often get in the way of deeper understandings and better knowledge, perhaps especially in the field of urban studies. Perhaps one of the first and most significant concerns across the different regional of the role of the state in fostering urban development. In sub-Saharan Africa there is yet an alternative form of actions by the state regarding urban governance.
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    Introduction: A World of Cities and Urban Problems in the Twenty-First Century
    (Wiley, 2021) Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Javier Ignacio; Orum, Anthony; Vicari Haddock, Serena
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    Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) Ruiz-Tagle, Javier; Orum, Anthony
    Racial/ethnic residential segregation refers to the relegation of racially or ethnically discriminated groups to separate areas within cities. Although the causes of such discrimination and the intensity of spatial divisions are different in each historical, socioeconomic, and political context, segregation is one of the most common problems in all cities of the world, and thus it may be the most discussed subject in urban studies' history. Residential segregation, based on externally imposed physical categorizations (race) or on collectively ratified and expressed identities (ethnicity), has existed since cities were established, as an urban division to reinforce political and economic inequalities and dissections in a given society. Depending on the degree of voluntariness and the function that a given zone fulfills for its residents, racial/ethnic segregation has taken several forms in world history, ranging from the “classic” ghetto, through ethnic enclaves, to gated communities, to name some of the most famous.
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    Social Mix
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) Ruiz-Tagle, Javier; Orum, Anthony
    “Social mix” generally denotes the social diversity of a given geographic area, which could be economically, racially, ethnically, and/or culturally based. It is a long-standing planning ideal, has been achieved through different means, has been proposed for a wide variety of goals, and has been used interchangeably to refer to concepts like “integration,” “mixed-income communities,” “poverty deconcentration,” “balanced communities,” and so on. There has been abundant literature from the 1990s, to the extent that social mix is currently one of the most studied subjects in the field, with at least five special issues of prominent academic journals dedicated to the topic. Although the evidence on the effects of social mix is somewhat mixed, the problems of its conceptual foundations and the amount and variety of issues created when implemented have led the large majority of academia to oppose this idea.