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Grouped: How Small Groups of Friends Are the Key to Influence on the Social Web

by Paul Adams  · 1 Nov 2011  · 123pp  · 32,382 words

. See Albert-László Barabási’s book Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means (Plume, 2003). 3. See the research paper “White flight in networked publics? How race and class shaped American teen engagement with MySpace and Facebook,” first published in 2009 by danah boyd. 4. For an

Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World

by Paul Collier  · 30 Sep 2013  · 303pp  · 83,564 words

, G., and Balarajan, M. 2011. Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Goodhart, D. 2013. White Flight? Britain’s New Problem—Segregation. Prospect, February. Greif, A., and Bates, R. H. 1995. Organising Violence: Wealth, Power, and Limited Government. Mimeo, Stanford University. Grosjean

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

by Yancey Strickler  · 29 Oct 2019  · 254pp  · 61,387 words

of the mall, we’re told, was a perfect confluence of events. A growing middle class, the creation of the US interstate highway system, and white flight to the suburbs sparked a sudden explosion of shopping centers and suburban growth. While these factors play a significant role, arguably just as big a

Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects

by Glenn Adamson  · 6 Aug 2018  · 220pp  · 64,234 words

of that age doing, building go-karts from busted roller skates, running a shoeshine route to earn pocket change, and getting in lots of fistfights. “White flight” was happening when he was growing up. The community gradually became poorer, more heavily African American. There was a lot of racial conflict. In fact

Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy

by Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson  · 30 May 2016  · 324pp  · 89,875 words

over time. In one study, Microsoft researcher danah boyd (who spells her name without capital letters) even compared Myspace’s demise to the phenomenon of white flight in U.S. cities.42 boyd suggested that Myspace developed a reputation as a “digital ghetto,” which drove away users, many of them into Facebook

to Its Growth,” Newsweek, April 30, 2009, http://www.newsweek.com/facebooks-porn-cops-are-key-its-growth-77055. 42. For more, see danah boyd, “White Flight in Networked Publics? How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook,” in Race after the Internet, ed. Lisa Nakamura and Peter

Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

by Steven Higashide  · 9 Oct 2019  · 195pp  · 52,701 words

the most local of concerns, many of the policies that shape that route stem from Washington. As Pressley said, our country’s spatial history—including white flight from cities, and a later, incomplete, and unequal redevelopment of urban neighborhoods—has been abetted by federal policy, including transportation. The same checkbook that paid

Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.  · 24 Sep 2019  · 242pp  · 71,943 words

to be a tremendous trauma for the human race.2 Modern Americans have a track record of explaining away the process of decline. The term white flight is an unnecessarily narrow description applied to the depopulation of core cities and the explosion of horizontal growth following World War II. While there is

, 151 Washington, George, 108 Watches, 11 Wealth: growth vs., 102–104 illusion of, 57–60 Wealth creation, in place-oriented government, 176–180, 177t–179t White flight, 111 Why Liberalism Failed (Deneen), 211 Whyte, William “Holly,” 158 Wikipedia, 196 Women, in workplace, 95–96 The World Until Yesterday (Diamond), 58, 84 World

The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving

by Leigh Gallagher  · 26 Jun 2013  · 296pp  · 76,284 words

, a stark contrast to the destruction and decay that once plagued our cities, which in the ’60s saw street riots, in the ’70s suffered from white flight, and in the ’80s and ’90s experienced an influx of crime, prostitution, and a crack epidemic that ravaged urban areas across our nation. It’s

Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

by Chris Bruntlett and Melissa Bruntlett  · 28 Jun 2021  · 225pp  · 70,590 words

States, this problem of reduced opportunity was identified in a 1968 paper by John F. Kain, in which he coined the term spatial mismatch. The “white flight” of the 1950s saw most White people flee for the suburbs, leaving African Americans behind, and reinforcing segregation in regions of all sizes across the

The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley  · 10 Jun 2013

it. The mostly white families who lived in these areas would be brought into the Denver public school system, thereby easing busing pressures and mitigating white flight by other parents who did not want their white children to be the minority within their schools. Just as important, these land acquisitions would bring

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