1st Edition

Inner City Poverty in Paris and London

By Charles Madge, Peter Willmott Copyright 1981
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Both the great cities studied in this book are renowned for their imposing streets and buildings, their cultural and political vitality and their cosmopolitan lifestyles, but just outside their centres are neighbourhoods where ordinairy people have their homes, often living in poverty and sometimes in squalor. Two such neighbourhoods were Stockwell in London and Folie-Mericourt in Paris, and are... Read more

Introduction

1. The inner city environment

2. Household incomes: the national and metropolitan context

3. Income inequality and poverty: stockwell and Folie-Mericourt

4. The inner city housing problem

5. Education, health and leisure

6. Multiple disadvantage

7. Comparisons and policies

Biography

Charles Madge