PP&D 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spatial Mismatch, Concentrated Poverty
23 Apr 2016
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The structural forces of advanced marginality: economic decline: spatial mismatch. Lecture 10 racist city post-1965 a. i. The area of job growth is distant from where people actually need these jobs: middle class flight b. i. People who were gaining more income had greater possibility to leave: left behind: concentrated jobless c. i. People with fewest resources and fewest skills c. iii. Sharp growth of concentrated poverty, rates that exceed 20% in some neighborhoods: structured exclusion: cut off d. i. The break down of local society: decline of institutions and internal fragmentation, weakening social capital b. i. If living in neighborhoods with few people who have jobs, there will be greater difficulty in getting a job b. ii. Access to tacit information increases chances to gain access to jobs: high territorial stigma: additional barrier c. i. Creates additional barriers, reduces an additional set of prejudices against these areas and the people that come from these areas c. ii.
