{"id":11,"date":"2008-06-25T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/06\/25\/anti-ghettos\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T21:05:00","slug":"anti-ghettos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/06\/25\/anti-ghettos\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Ghettos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest issue of the Journal of Urban affairs has an article by <\/span>David Imbroscio<\/a> arguing against what he calls the dispersal consensus<\/a> in low-income housing policy. The intent of this set of policies is to spread out the urban poor into middle-class suburban neighborhoods. <\/span><\/p>\n

I haven’t yet read the article, but it makes sense that the heterogeneity created by a dispersal policy might create some problems. An interesting set of case studies are the Paris suburbs<\/a>. The article, references French Sociologist Loic Wacquant’s<\/a> work on, what he calls, anti-ghettos<\/i> or heterogeneous places that work to reduce the solidarity fostered by ethnic enclaves. Here’s a telling passage from the article discussing anti-ghettos:
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the layout of the French suburbs (<\/em><\/span>hinders neighbourly and community relationships that could, for example, encourage religions to develop. They are designed in a way that makes it difficult for immigrant workers to mix and to enjoy leisure time, encouraging them to save in order to become future homeowners.
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The recent discussions about suburban poverty suggests that perhaps an anti-ghettoing is occurring in the U.S. as well. I’d be interested in knowing how and why do integrating suburbs avoid this anti-ghettoing process. How do dispersal policies help to ameliorate the loss of bonding social capital that is bound to occur? <\/span>
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The latest issue of the Journal of Urban affairs has an article by David Imbroscio arguing against what he calls the dispersal consensus in low-income housing policy. The intent of this set of policies is to spread out the urban poor into middle-class suburban neighborhoods. I haven’t yet read the article, but it makes sense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}