“…Some contemporary scholars would doubtless argue that the conceptual amalgamation of these assorted urban facets of poverty, social insecurity, and ghettoization in time and space represents a signal act of theoretical overreach. 1 By way of rejoinder to this putative charge, the broad etiological features comprising the magnetic allure of large third-wave cities for the inhabitants of peripheral regions, the formation of a burgeoning subservient or servile class in contemporary urban society, and the persistent segregation of low-wage and minority populations in urban space, suggest that these phenomena raise common and mutually informative conceptual challenges, notwithstanding the enormous diversity of the cultural, administrative, and political logics that help to shape their concrete realization on the ground (Acquistapace, 2018; McFarlane and Silver, 2017; Roy, 2011; Sampson, 2012).…”