This policy brief—a product of the SIAP Culture and Community Revitalization Collection, in collaboration with Reinvestment Fund---uses existing research on urban culture and community arts to make a case for culture-based neighborhood revitalization. The brief defines and illustrates "natural" cultural districts, highlights the synergy of social diversity and cultural engagement, and draws les...

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Poverty Center or any sponsoring agency Abstract During the 1990s, employment increased and poverty declined for single mothers in rural and urban areas. Our results suggest that, holding demographics constant, changes in welfare a...

Housing developments in Lagos State peri-urban settlements have contributed immensely to the alleviation of the challenges of housing deficits in central Lagos. This research aims at examining the characteristics of housing development in the peri-urban settlements of Lagos State, Nigeria. Using a case study approach, housing developments in peri-urban settlements in Ibeju-Lekki Local Governmen...

UK Regeneration exists amidst a ‘burgeoning’ literature which states an ongoing desire to improve the outcomes of urban policy (Henderson, Bowlby and Raco 2007). But concerns about the symbolic nature of urban policyleave this aspiration somewhat wanting (Atkinson 2000, Wilks-Heeg 1997, Mossberger and Stoker 1997). Stone (2002) suggests that the gap which exists between intention and outcome cr...

This review essay revisits recent scholarship within urban geography that has been shaped by relational theory, looking specifically at the scholarship on urban policy mobilities and urban assemblages. As will be shown, current urban geographies of relationality operate with irreconcilable grammars.

Rural migrants have suffered from serious social exclusion in the Chinese urban society. However, since the early 2000s, the Chinese government emphasizes social harmony as an important national development goal. Together with the reorientation of development goals, the livelihood of rural migrants has received unprecedented State attention. This paper studies the policy changes and examines wh...

In spite of their positive influence on living standards and social inequality, it is commonly agreed that minimum wage laws reduce output because they produce unemployment. This paper suggests that minimum wage policy may be beneficial for a transitional economy in which labor is migrating from rural region to urban region and positive migrating costs occur. With a positive migrating cost, a b...