The Atlanta Paradox (The Multi City Study of Urban Inequality) [Hardcover]

David L. Sjoquist (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0871548089 | ISBN-13: 978-0871548085 | Publication Date: May 2000

Despite the rapid creation of jobs in the greater Atlanta region, poverty in the city itself remains surprisingly high, and Atlanta's economic boom has yet a to play a significant role in narrowing the gap between the suburban rich and the city poor. This book investigates the key factors underlying this paradox. The authors show that the legacy of past residential segregation as well as the more recent phenomenon of urban sprawl both work against inner city blacks. The book also presents some promising signs. The emergence of a dynamic, black middle class and the success of many black-owned businesses in the area also give the authors reason to hope that racial inequality will not remain entrenched in a city where so much else has changed. The Atlanta Paradox is essential reading for all those concerned with economic and racial inequalities in America's cities and metropolitan areas.

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...among the most important contributions of the past decade to our understanding of racial patterns of economic disadvantage in U.S. metropolitan regions... -- Ronald F. Ferguson, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation (May 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871548089
• ISBN-13: 978-0871548085
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,336,275 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars dense, November 27, 2002

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This review is from: The Atlanta Paradox (The Multi City Study of Urban Inequality) (Hardcover)

This was not the book I expected it to be: I expected another history of Atlanta and of the bitter fruits of Atlanta's business-oriented politics. Instead I got a group of essays about the Atlanta labor market - not necessarily a bad thing, since Atlanta politics has already been discussed to death by other authors (I recommend, for example, the works of Clarence Stone and Larry Keating). Except for the first three or four essays, most of the essays in Atlanta Paradox are of interest only to labor economists. Having said that, some of the essays (especially the one on spatial mismatch) are fairly good. Others are flawed, primarily because they result on surveys of very small groups, and occasionally make conclusions about subgroups based on responses by 5 or 10 people - hardly an appropriate research technique.