Description: Further DetailsTitle: People, Plans, and PoliciesCondition: NewSubtitle: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban ProblemsISBN-10: 0231074026EAN: 9780231074025ISBN: 9780231074025Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/10/1991Description: The primary theme of this collection of essays is that the cities' basic problems are poverty and racism, and until these concerns are addressed by bringing about racial equality, creating jobs, and instituting other reforms, the generally low quality of urban life will persist. Gans argues that the individual must work to alter society. He believes that not only must parents have jobs to improve their children's school performance, but that the country needs a modernized "New Deal," a more labor-intensive economy, and a thirty-two hour work week to achieve full employment. Other controversial ideas presented in this book include Gans's opposition to the whole notion of an underclass, which he feels is the latest way for the nonpoor to unjustly label the poor as undeserving. He also believes that poverty continues to plague society because it is often useful to the nonpoor. He is critical of architecture that aims above all to be aesthetic or to make philosophical statements, is doubtful that planners can or should try to reform our social or personal lives, and thinks we should concentrate on achieving individual public policies until we learn how to properly plan as a society.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Herbert J. GansGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesBook Series: Morningside BookRelease Year: 1991 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: People, Plans, and Policies
Title: People, Plans, and Policies
Subtitle: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems
ISBN-10: 0231074026
EAN: 9780231074025
ISBN: 9780231074025
Release Date: 06/10/1991
Release Year: 1991
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 383 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: People, Plans, and Policies : Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 1991
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Public Policy / Social Policy, Sociology / Urban
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.6 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Herbert J. Gans
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Series: A Morningside Book Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
