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- Title: Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs
- Author : Lucia Lo, Valerie Preston, Paul Anisef, Ranu Basu & Shuguang Wang
- Release Date : January 07, 2015
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,Nonfiction,Social Science,Science & Nature,Geography,Sociology,Public Administration,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7223 KB
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Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region, a large outer suburb north of Toronto, the authors provide a spatial analysis that illuminates the invisible geography of vulnerability in the region.
The volume examines access to social services by vulnerable groups who are not usually associated with the suburbs: recent immigrants, seniors, and low-income families. Investigating their access to four types of social infrastructure – education, employment, housing, and settlement services – this book presents a range of policy recommendations for how to address the social inequalities that characterize contemporary outer suburbs.