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Race, poverty, and urban sprawl: Access to opportunities through regional strategies

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This article attempts to demonstrate the need for social justice and urban civil rights advocates to focus on sprawl as well as concentrated poverty. The article posits that these are as much civil rights issues as environmental or land use issues and that sprawl has frustrated civil rights efforts. Indeed, there is strong evidence that racialized concentrated poverty is both a cause and product of sprawl and that, due to this interrelationship, concentrated poverty cannot be addressed without addressing sprawl. To examine this relationship, the author explores how the phenomena of gentrification and cities. Finally, the author argues that concentrated poverty and sprawl are regional issues that can only be addressed on a regional level; therefore, it is a mistake for social justice and urban civil rights advocates to leave the regional discussion to environmentalists and land use planners.

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  • John Powell, 1999. "Race, poverty, and urban sprawl: Access to opportunities through regional strategies," Forum for Social Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(2), pages 1-20, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fosoec:v:28:y:1999:i:2:p:1-20
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02833980
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    1. Laurie Lachance & Laurie Carpenter & Martha Quinn & Margaret K. Wilkin & Noreen M. Clark, 2014. "Moving toward and beyond equity: the Food & Fitness approach to increasing opportunities for health in communities," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(3), pages 293-297, July.

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