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Nancy Scheper-Hughes studied a Brazilian shantytown. Out of this research she developed the concept ...

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Modernization has been criticized for all of the following reasons EXCEPT for

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Kleniewski suggests that Castells made three important modifications to world systems theory. The ...

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Influenced by diffusion theory, proponents of modernization often assumed that urbanization in ...

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In the United States, poor neighborhoods are usually located at the center of cities. In France, and ...

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Geographer David Clark argues that squatter settlements can fill some important and positive roles. ...

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Five years after World War II, the 15 largest cities in the world were predominantly Western cities. ...

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Dependency theorists shifted the focus of the impact of industrialization and globalization from ...

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Because of the third urban revolution, in many cities in the less-developed world

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Although squatter settlements are usually characterized by poverty and public health crises, they ...

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According to Alain Touraine, the fundamental problem of integration in France is

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A city that has economic, political, social, and cultural prominence in a nation, usually a less ...

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What does the title of Putnam's book, Bowling Alone, imply about his view of social capital in the ...

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In trying to understand the causes of excess mortality during the 1995 Chicago heat wave, Eric ...

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Hutter notes that New Orleans will be rebuilt, but that a key questions is whose New Orleans will be ...

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Define environmental injustice and list two of the underlying factors that make it possible.

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As a result of their study of "Netville," would Wellman and Hampton agree with Putnam that social ...

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The 1995 Chicago heat wave killed 700 people more than was typical during a week in July.

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Klinenberg suggests that sociologists - having been influenced by the Chicago School - have tended ...

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In his research on networks, Barry Wellman pointed out that a social network can exist only among ...

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Disasters such as the Chicago heat wave of 1995 and Hurricane Katrina are solely due to natural conditions.

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Although local, state, and federal government agencies failed to fully anticipate and prepare for ...

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Wellman and Hampton's study of "Netville," revealed that emerging electronic technology

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Those with political and economic power in New Orleans control the urban imagery of the city and ...

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The people most affected by flooding when Katrina hit New Orleans were predominantly

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