Social Infrastructure And Vulnerability In The Suburbs

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region, a large outer suburb north of Toronto, the authors provide a spatial analysis that illuminates the invisible geography of vulnerability in the region. The volume examines access to social services by vulnerable groups who are not usually associated with the suburbs: recent immigrants, seniors, and low-income families. Investigating their access to four types of social infrastructure ? education, employment, housing, and settlement services ? this book presents a range of policy recommendations for how to address the social inequalities that characterize contemporary outer suburbs.

• • Author: Lucia Lo, Valerie Preston, Paul Anisef, Ranu Basu, Shuguang Wang
• • Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• • Publication Date: Mar 30, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 208 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1442628324
• • ISBN-13: 9781442628328