Early Death: Mortality among Young Children in New York, Chicago, and New Orleans

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen A. Condran ◽  
Harold R. Lentzner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Young Children ◽  
York City ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Infant Feeding Practices ◽  
Summer Mortality ◽  
Quality Of Milk ◽  
Infants And Young Children

The high mortality of nineteenth-century cities included excess summer mortality among infants and young children. Data from New York City, New Or-leans, and Chicago from 1870 to 1917 and earlier data from New York City permit an examination of this high summer mortality and its decline during the early twentieth century in relation to changes in infant feeding practices, sanitation projects to improve water supplies and methods of waste disposal, and efforts to improve the quality of milk.

Quality of urban life among older adults in the world major metropolises: a cross-cultural comparative study

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
XI PAN ◽  
JASLEEN K. CHAHAL ◽  
ROSE MARIE WARD
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
York City ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Quality Of Urban Life

ABSTRACTThe concept of quality of urban life (QoUL) can be interpreted quite differently across different cultures. Little evidence has shown that the measure of QoUL, which is based on Western culture, can be applied to populations cross-culturally. In the current study, we use data from the 2006 Assessing Happiness and Competitiveness of World Major Metropolises study to identify underlying factors associated with QoUL as well as assess the consistency of the QoUL measurement among adults, aged 60 and older, in ten world major metropolises (i.e. New York City, Toronto, London, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Stockholm, Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul). Exploratory factor analysis and multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) are used to analyse the data. Findings of the study suggest that the measure of QoUL is sensitive to socio-cultural differences. Community factor and intrapersonal factor are two underlying structures that are related to QoUL among older adults in ten metropolises cross-culturally. Results from the CFA indicate that Toronto is comparable with Beijing, New York City, Paris, Milan and Stockholm in QoUL, while other cities are not. The results provide insights into the development of current urban policy and promotion of quality of life among older residents in major metropolitan areas. Future researchers should continue to explore the relationship between QoUL and socio-cultural differences within international urban settings, while remaining cautious when making cross-cultural comparisons.

Constructing Tests of Mathematical Concepts for Young Children

1956 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
J. Wayne Wrightstone
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Young Children ◽  
York City ◽  
Mathematical Thinking ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Mathematics Program

About ten years ago, the Mathematics Program in the elementary schools of New York City was modified so as to place an increasing emphasis on the a bility of young children to do mathematical thinking. It was assumed that children can learn to think in the abstract terms of mathematics only if they learn meaningful concepts of arithmetic, or mathematics. The mathematics to be learned must not be too difficult for pupil understanding and must not be too easy to preclude a challenge to thinking.

“A Shelter Can Tip the Scales Sometimes”: Disinvestment, Gentrification, and the Neighborhood Politics of Homelessness in 1980s New York City

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 915-931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Neighborhood Politics ◽  
New Yorkers

In the 1980s, visible homelessness became one of the most pressing problems in New York City. While most New Yorkers expressed sympathy for the homeless, many of them also resisted efforts to site shelters and service facilities in their neighborhoods. But far from being simply a case of NIMBY (not-in-my-back-yard) sentiment, protests over the placement of these facilities arose in the context of decades-long neighborhood movements against urban disinvestment and the beginning of gentrification in some New York City neighborhoods. I argue that understanding this history is crucial to parsing the complex politics of anti-homeless facility protests in the 1980s and to understanding the rise of “quality of life” policies that would govern many neoliberal urban spaces by the 1990s.

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