Urban Islands of Poverty and Bowling With Strangers

Deconstructing Robert Putnam and gentrification at Pacific Standard magazine.

Theme: Relationship between social capital and urban poverty.

Subject Article: "City neighborhoods: still 'lonely islands of poverty'?"

Other Links: 1. "Displacing Poverty."
2. "People Develop, Not Places."
3. "Demographic Dynamism and Metropolitan Change: Comparing Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Washington, DC."
4. "Gentrification Is Not About Race and Class, but Fear of Outsiders."
5. "Cleveland’s Future: Bowling with Strangers."
6. "Benefits of Bowling Alone."
7. "Inbreeding Homophily."
8. "Not Bowling Alone: How the Holiday Bowl in Crenshaw Became an Integrated Leisure Space."
9. "The Shifting Cultures of Multiracial Boyle Heights."
10. "Beyond the 'Brain Drain': How Cities Really Need to Sell Themselves."

Postscript: I surprised myself coming to the conclusion that the concept of "gentrification" is as useless as "brain drain". Gentrification is nothing more than another way to dehumanize migrants, to say that some people don't belong.