Urban policy

Indeks : p.330-342 ; URBAN Outcasts is a majetic synthesis of reseach on urban marginality in advanced capitalist countries it the common forces leading to a new kind of poverty on both sides of Atlantic while forcefully demonstrating the distinctly different ways social exclusive operates in Europe and in America. This refreshingly new look at the social theory and urban studies. In this imprensive book, Wacquant deploys his unparallelledge of the black American ghetto and the Frence benlieve to tackle a series of foundational questions about inequality and poverty. He shows us the variable ways in which these two conditions get contitude in two strands of the capitalisme and how" territorial stigmatization" affcts both the strategies of the poor and the public policies aimed at their reserved zones. The result is a provacative analysis of poparization from below and of the lived realities of urban marginality.