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Scitus Academics LLC Urban Deprivation and the Inner City by Justy Sowards
Urban decline is the deterioration of the inner city often caused by lack of
investment and maintenance. Urban deprivation is a standard of leaving
below that of the majority in a particular society that involves hardships and
lack of access to resources. Urban decay has no single cause; it results from
combinations of inter-related socio-economic conditions—including the
city's urban planning decisions, tight rent control, the poverty of the local
populace, the construction of freeway roads and rail road lines that bypass
the area, depopulation by suburbanization of peripheral lands, real estate
neighborhood redlining, and immigration restrictions. Places suffering from
urban deprivation have visible differences in housing and economic
opportunities been the rich living alongside poor people. The inner city
areas of many Global cities have an image of decay with poverty, pollution,
crime, overcrowding, poor housing conditions and unemployment. Such
problems are more prevalent in inner-city areas than in other areas of the
city. Deprivation has been caused by old industries closing down and
increasing the unemployment levels which are not tackled due to the old
workers not being skilled enough to work in these new factories or line of
jobs.
This Book, Urban Deprivation and the Inner City, provides an interpretation
of inner city problems by examining the processes which fashion them. It
presents the studies, which looks at the historical growth and decline of
present-day cities. Contributors draw on the efficacy of government policy
and the major attempts to pull together the policy implications of their
analyses, with many critical of government inner city strategies.