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Commentary-the accidental relevance of American urban geography

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American exceptionalism, born out of a remarkable historical-geographic contingency, was steadily undermined by the material and discursive urbanisms of globalization and transnationalism. Studying the American city, disrupted by the overlay of newer transnational connections atop deeply-entrenched older divisions, requires the analytical tools long used to understand the imprint of colonialism and empire on British cities.

New York, Globalization, Colonialism

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Contingent urban geographies of violent crime: racial segregation and the impact of public housing in Atlanta

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The perspective of crime is explained by focusing on the characteristics of communities which is a unitary scale equated with neighborhoods. An argument that this perspective fails to recognize the importance of broader urban geographic contexts is presented.

International Affairs, Racial Oppression, Influence, Violent crimes, Race discrimination

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Race, Scale and the Concentration of Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1980 to 1990

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The author examines geographic concentrations of poverty and its relationship to the distribution of minorities. Topics include neighborhood redistribution, census data, and metropolitan populations.

United States, Statistical Data Included, Evaluation, Demographic aspects, Poverty, Ohio, Metropolitan areas, Population, Migration, Internal, Internal migration

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