Urban Anthropology

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This paper examines how the urban metropolises are no longer the vibrant or essential centers they used to be and how the mass migration of the wealthy into the suburbs has left our cities with reduced tax bases and less stability, and in turn, the cities have rapidly begun decaying. It analyzes how poverty rates in American cities continue to increase and have worsened in the last ten years. It also discusses how urban civic leaders have reason to be concerned, since today's urban neighborhoods are creating unique economic and social problems.

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"Concerned residents have to focus additional attention for their children. Curbing youth delinquency is a major challenge the poverty stricken urban areas. "Residents also discuss the physical maintenance of the neighborhood, but this is frequently connected to the irresponsibility of idle young people, "gang bangers" who trash the neighborhood." (Pattillo) Despite positive attempts from political, civic and familial leadership, keeping a kid on the right path in the urban areas is difficult considering the other side is recruiting just as hard as the positive side does. Urban community watch groups are often times the only true police presence and "Graffiti Blaster" programs attempt to keep businesses clean and presentable in spite of juvenile delinquency."

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