Diagnosing Poverty

2018 ◽  
pp. 34-51
Author(s):  
Robin Marie Averbeck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
York City ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Federal Programs ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Inner Cities ◽  
Antipoverty Programs

Chapter 2 tells the story of liberal programs designed to try and reduce poverty in the inner cities. This includes both federal programs and private programs, often supported by federal funding. The focus is on the sociological theory behind many of these programs, which justified themselves on having a fresh new approach to the problem of poverty. Key figures included Leonard Cottrell and Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin. Cloward and Ohlin in particular worked on one of the most celebrated antipoverty programs, Mobilization for Youth in New York City. However, the chapter also unpacks how these programs and theories reflected the assumption that poor people were dysfunctional and had to be taught how to participate in their own local democracies, laying the groundwork for the idea of a culture of poverty.

Jackson Heights Neighborhood Transportation Study, New York City: New Approach in Community-Based Planning

2012 ◽  
Vol 2307 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Ernhofer ◽  
Willa Ng ◽  
Gill Mosseri ◽  
David Stein ◽  
Don Varley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Community Based ◽  
New Approach

Untangling the Pathologies of Ungovernability

Dying City ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Tochterman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Federal Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Culture Of Poverty

In The Other America, Michael Harrington highlighted the persistence of poverty in New York City in an otherwise affluent era, hoping to spur federal policy that could help struggling neighborhoods like Harlem and the Bowery. As this chapter highlights, however, Harrington’s work ignited a debate on “urban pathologies” centered on New York. Conservative commentators took up Harrington’s representation of an urban “culture of poverty” to perpetuate a narrative of a pathological “underclass” destroying cities like New York

Sabotaging the Civilizers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce D. Goodfriend
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Cultural Authority ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Immoral Behavior ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Rules Set ◽  
New Yorkers

This chapter examines how lowly city dwellers confounded their purported benefactors, for example, by violating cardinal points of civility, indulging their appetites at taverns and brothels, or intruding into the exclusive spaces of the well-to-do. Many urban New Yorkers behaved in ways that were contrary to elite expectations and in so doing risked sanctions from those who controlled important resources. Poor people tended to transgress the rules set by gentlemen and engage in immoral behavior. In precarious circumstances, they perpetually did what was necessary to stay afloat, even if it meant flouting the Christian-based moral standards upheld by the elite. This chapter considers how people disdained as nonentities in eighteenth-century New York City, including blacks and prostitutes, contested the dominion of the city's gentlemen and thus diminished the elite's cultural authority.

scholarly journals The implementation of natural lighting for human health from a planning perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 489-513
Author(s):  
J Mardaljevic
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Real World ◽  
York City ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Natural Lighting ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
The Impact

This paper makes the case that a significant factor in the failure to ensure adequate daylighting performance for interior spaces is often due to the inadequacy of methods used at the early stages of planning. All of the methods currently used for daylight/sunlight planning share common failings: they cannot make meaningful estimations of performance at the outset, nor can the methods used be extended/refined to overcome these failings. Thus, it is argued, a new approach is required. The paper gives an overview of the history and development of methods to predict performance; from the conception of the daylight factor to climate-based daylight modelling. The impact of prescriptive planning regulations is described using New York City as the example. The paper concludes with an outline of a new modelling schema which can provide the much needed link between the real-world practicalities of building planning and the need to determine realistic indicators of building performance at the earliest stages of obtaining planning consent.

AIDS Deaths in the Bronx 1983–1988: Spatiotemporal Analysis from a Sociogeographic Perspective

1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1701-1723 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Wallace ◽  
M T Fullilove
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Spatiotemporal Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
Inner Cities ◽  
Growing Body

Patterns of AIDS deaths, in space and time, are examined for the populous Bronx section of New York City in view of the continuing massive destruction of housing and disruption of community which has affected the South Bronx since the early 1970s. Annual Bronx AIDS deaths are studied simultaneously in geographic space and in a dual ‘social variate’ space, and it is found that study of linked changes in each deeply illuminates patterns in both. This analysis reinforces a rapidly growing body of work which suggests control of AIDS in the United States, particularly prevention of a widespread and relentlessly rising heterosexual phase of the epidemic, may well prove impossible without a timely, general, and considerable program of reform and renewal for its disintegrating inner cities.

An Important Armenian MS. with Greek Miniatures

1942 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
H. Kurdian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Christian Iconography

In 1941 while in New York City I was fortunate enough to purchase an Armenian MS. which I believe will be of interest to students of Eastern Christian iconography.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

Cultural Competence Needed to Distinguish Disorder from Difference: Beyond Kumbaya

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine J. Crowley ◽  
Kristin Guest ◽  
Kenay Sudler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
York City ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
New York State ◽  
Deep Understanding

What does it mean to have true cultural competence as an speech-language pathologist (SLP)? In some areas of practice it may be enough to develop a perspective that values the expectations and identity of our clients and see them as partners in the therapeutic process. But when clinicians are asked to distinguish a language difference from a language disorder, cultural sensitivity is not enough. Rather, in these cases, cultural competence requires knowledge and skills in gathering data about a student's cultural and linguistic background and analyzing the student's language samples from that perspective. This article describes one American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)-accredited graduate program in speech-language pathology and its approach to putting students on the path to becoming culturally competent SLPs, including challenges faced along the way. At Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) the program infuses knowledge of bilingualism and multiculturalism throughout the curriculum and offers bilingual students the opportunity to receive New York State certification as bilingual clinicians. Graduate students must demonstrate a deep understanding of the grammar of Standard American English and other varieties of English particularly those spoken in and around New York City. Two recent graduates of this graduate program contribute their perspectives on continuing to develop cultural competence while working with diverse students in New York City public schools.

Self-perceived oral health among three subgroups of Asian-Americans in New York City: a preliminary study

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo D. Cruz ◽  
Diana L. Galvis ◽  
Mimi Kim ◽  
Racquel Z. Le-Geros ◽  
Su-Yan L. Barrow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
York City ◽  
Preliminary Study
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