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Alicea, Julio Angel – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2023
This study examines often-overlooked youth perspectives on the sociospatial changes happening in a community experiencing Black displacement, mass Latinx immigration, and impending gentrification. To date, studies of complex urban change rarely consider the ways in which young people perceive and produce place differently from adults. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Social Change, Urban Youth, African Americans
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Broughton, Chad – Teaching Sociology, 2011
This article examines the opportunities and limitations presented by organizing an undergraduate field research methods class as a policy think tank working for a government client. Organized as such, the course had both the learning objectives of a traditional undergraduate methods class and the corporate objectives of a policy think tank (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Public Policy, Behavioral Objectives, Organizational Objectives
Rothwell, Jonathan; Berube, Alan – Brookings Institution, 2011
This report examines education gaps and industry demand in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. Metropolitan areas are a natural unit of analysis given that they offer the best approximation of a regional labor market. Moreover, the wide variation in metropolitan area economic performance, as documented by the Brookings MetroMonitor…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Labor Market, Metropolitan Areas, Public Policy
Vitullo-Martin, Julia, Ed. – 1995
The death of Robert F. Wagner, Jr., the widely admired former deputy mayor of New York City, in 1993, halted collaboration on a planned book about solutions to urban problems. This collection, dedicated to his memory, takes up the legacy of the earlier book with discussion of the future of cities from the scholarly perspective, from the…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Futures (of Society), Housing, Low Income Groups