Urban Ills: Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts

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Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 2 is devoted to the myriad issues involving urban health and the dynamics of urban communities and their neighborhoods. The editors define the ecology of urban living as the relationship and adjustment of humans to a highly dense, diverse, and complex environment. This approach examines the nexus between the distribution of human groups with reference to material resources and the consequential social, political, economic, and cultural patterns which evolve as a result of the sufficiency or insufficiency of those material resources. They emphasize the most vulnerable populations suffering during and after the recession in the United States and around the world, and the chapters examine traditional issues of housing and employment with respect to these communities. Dedication Contents Foreword • Edward F. Lawlor Preface • Carol Camp Yeakey, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, and Anjanette Wells Section Three: Urban Health 16 Place Matters: Contextualizing Health Using a Social Determinants Model • Will J. Ross 17 Social Dis(ease) of African American Males and Health • Keon L. Gilbert, Rashawn Ray, and Marvin Langston 18 Economic Contractions’ Neglected Impact on African Americans’ Mental Health • Lonnie R. Snowden and Tim A. Bruckner 19 Urban Poverty and Cardiovascular Disease Health • Tekeda F. Ferguson and Nkenge Jones-Jack 20 Coming to America: Mental Health Needs Among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants • Elián P. Cabrera-Nguyen and Vetta L. Sanders Thompson 21 The Intersection of Poverty and Health: Are Race and ClassFar Behind? A Case Study • Vetta L. Sanders Thompson and Anjanette Wells 22 Flint Adolescent Study: A Longitudinal Examination of Social Support and Achievement Motivational Beliefs ofAfrican American Adolescents • Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, Noelle Hurd, and Marc A. Zimmerman 23 Does Area Regeneration Improve Residents’ Health & Well-Being?: A Novel Methodological Approach to Measuring the Health Impacts of Area Regeneration • Daryll Archibald Section Four: Urban Communities and Neighborhood Dynamics 24 The Twenty-First-Century Gold Coast and Slum • Robert J. Sampson 25 Another Border to Cross: Mexican Immigrant Families and Obstacles to Integration in the Suburbs • Benjamin J. Roth 26 The Relationship between Mass Incidents and Social Inequality in the Social Transformation of China • Jing Sun, Nicholas Buys, and Xinchao Wang 27 Housing and Identity in Postcolonial Portugal • Derek Pardue 28 Exploring the Social Outcomes of Brownfield Regeneration in Different Types of Deprived Communities: Evidence from Manchester, England • Jennifer P. Doyle 29 Disasters as Hyper-Marginalization: Social Abandonment in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans • Daina Cheyenne Harvey 30 Selling Out: A Case Study of the Transition from Rental Control to Market Rate Housing in New York City • Rachael A. Woldoff, Lisa M. Morrison, and Michael R. Glass 31 The Epilogue: Confronting the Dilemmas of Twenty-First-Century Urban Living in Global Contexts • Carol Camp Yeakey, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, and Anjanette Wells Index Contributors