City Children and Genderfied Neighbourhoods: The New Generation as Urban Regeneration Strategy

Berg, Marguerite van den

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01172.x

Cited by 65 publications

(20 citation statements)

References 30 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Similarly, civic, business, and educational leaders market local schools to middle‐class parents in the hopes that these families will contribute to both the improvement of urban schools and the revitalization of the city (Carr ; Cucchiara , ; Gulson ; Lipman , ; Varady and Raffel ). As with related attempts to render cities more family‐friendly (van den Berg ), this strategy emphasizes the benefits that can accrue from the attraction or retention of the middle class. But as scholars have noted, such a sanguine view neglects the potential costs associated with such efforts.…”

Section: Mapping the Literature On Middle‐class Families And Urban Pumentioning

confidence: 99%

Middle‐Class Parents and Urban Public Schools: Current Research and Future Directions

Posey-Maddox¹,

2014

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Middle-class flight from urban public schools to suburban districts or private schools is a key source of educational inequality. Recently, however, a number of studies have focused on middle-class and upper-middle-class families who have made a different choice, opting to remain in the city and send their children to neighborhood public schools. While the movement of advantaged families into urban public schools has received positive attention in the media, this growing body of research tells a more complicated story. Middle-class families -with their economic, cultural, and social capital -can bring important resources to schools, resulting in widespread benefits. However, their engagement in urban public schools can also lead to marginalization and exclusion. We review the emergent literature on this topic, highlighting four themes: (i) parent preferences, identities, and values; (ii) the role of marketing campaigns and informal networks in attracting the middle class; (iii) the nature and consequences of middle-class parent engagement in urban schooling; and (iv) the relationship between neighborhood change and school change. We conclude by outlining a research agenda aimed at deepening our understanding of the mechanisms by which middle-class parent engagement in urban schooling may serve to mitigate, reproduce, or exacerbate educational inequalities.Sociological scholarship on urban education frequently focuses on the inequities experienced by low-income students in large city school districts. Recently, however, a growing body of American and European literature has called attention to the decisions of middle-class and upper-middle-class parents, 1 particularly Whites, to consider and/or enroll their children in socioeconomically mixed or predominantly low-income urban public schools (Billingham and

show abstract

Section: Mapping the Literature On Middle‐class Families And Urban Pumentioning

confidence: 99%

Middle‐Class Parents and Urban Public Schools: Current Research and Future Directions

Posey-Maddox¹,

2014

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…It provides an entry point for understanding how the physical, environmental and economic aspects of cities can be integrated to positively affect the lives of women and men. This is because approach has the potential to match planners' ideas about service delivery with enduser needs, something that is crucial in ensuring that the design of physical and social spaces in cities is guided by decisions that are based on the ideals and preferences of city residents (Simonsen, 1996;van dijk et al, 2011;van den Berg, 2012). Gender responsive planning further makes women and men not only community-level participants but also partners in shaping the urban planning agenda.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender responsiveness in infrastructure provision for African cities: The case of Kampala in Uganda

Buyana¹,

Lwasa²

2014

J. Geogr. Reg. Plann.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Urban service delivery in cities of Africa is undergoing transformation in the quest to improve access and coverage while reducing the urban infrastructure deficit. This is mainly signaled by the gradual shift to integrated urban planning functions and decision-making spheres within the institutional set-up of city authorities. This paper builds on a triangulated study in Kampala city to argue that urban planning functions should not only be integrated but also responsive to gender needs, as an inclusive pathway to sustained provision of infrastructure. The study found out that the utilization of infrastructure and the associated aspects of service delivery are socially preconditioned by socioeconomic preferences that are based on gender differentials in mobility needs. Women preferred infrastructure that offers personal security, flexible mobility, hygiene and physical comfort, whereas men were primarily concerned about alternative travel routes for punctuality, safety while on the road, convenience and quicker connectivity to public utilities. But planning at city level has neither integrated nor transcended the physical, economic and environmental accounts of infrastructure and service provision to include gender responsiveness. This ultimately leads to delivery outcomes that are less aligned to variations in women's compared to men's end-user expectations. The paper concludes with a step-wise framework for conceptualizing how urban planning can be gender responsive together with examples on real-life applications in the context of African cities.

show abstract

“…The cities have begun to focus on the neighbourhoods as the most appropriate scale to plan, deliver services and address unsustainable behaviour practices and norms [18]. More expressively, neighbourhoods are building blocks of the cities [19]. Sustainable neighbourhood is germane to the urban agenda for sustainable cities.…”

Section: Measuring Urban Neighbourhood Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighbourhood sustainability assessment model for developing countries: A comprehensive approach to urban quality of life

Moroke¹,

Schoeman²,

Schoeman³

2020

Int. J. SDP

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To this end, sustainability has progressively become a core principle and prerequisite in the urban planning and development. The application of sustainability and/or its principal expression is being threatened by neighbourhoods' inequality such as segregation in land use and varying levels of income in developing countries. From sustainable development perspective and strictly linked to spatial contexts, this reflects inadequate urban planning as these spatial and socio-economic inequalities translate to fragmented spatial systems, unsustainable urban form and low quality of life. The analysis of these variables depicts that between the rich neighbourhoods and poor neighbourhoods very little space is afforded for connectivity and integration, local facilities, environmental quality and spatial components which are themselves pillars of sustainable urban form and desired quality of life are not preferentially factored into poor neighbourhoods. Thus, bringing multiple and multifaceted adverse impacts on poor people such as living in the unsafe and unhealthy areas. In essence, locally provided community facilities, infrastructure and services are mechanisms of spatial transformation and integration thus promote social and economic development. When drawing up social services to act as the basis from which sustainability in urban areas could be determined -central contention is that urban sustainability cannot be achieved without adequate social facilities that are differentiated by neighbourhoods varying development densities, community size, mobility levels and socio-economic variations. As a result, this research paper evaluates the sustainability level of low-income neighbourhood living spaces which urban system requires in order to achieve urban sustainability. Evaluating neighbourhood sustainability requires a modelling and integrated approach that bring forward all aspects of urban development and quality of life. The Successful Neighbourhood Model (SNM) developed as the comprehensive sustainability assessment tool for low income neighbourhoods in pursuit of neighbourhood sustainability in South Africa is used. The application of SNM procedure embrace metric benchmarking methodology and this quantitative nature of sustainability assessment is employed to conclude and recommend timely integration of new urban sustainability issues in the planning policies, strategies and instruments. SNM has demonstrated that it is possible to identify barriers that hinder poor neigbourhoods to be sustainable and presents possibilities of aiding urban policy decisions regarding sustainability.

show abstract

City Children and Genderfied Neighbourhoods: The New Generation as Urban Regeneration Strategy

Cited by 65 publications

References 30 publications

Middle‐Class Parents and Urban Public Schools: Current Research and Future Directions

Middle‐Class Parents and Urban Public Schools: Current Research and Future Directions

Gender responsiveness in infrastructure provision for African cities: The case of Kampala in Uganda

Neighbourhood sustainability assessment model for developing countries: A comprehensive approach to urban quality of life

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About