Divided City

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The story goes about two boys: Graham (protestant) and Joe (Catholic) Graham has really strict parents who don't want to know something about catholic people.

Graham's grandfather, Grandpa Reid, is pressuring him to join the Orange Walk, a time when Protestants gather and celebrate the victory of William of Orange over King James. That’s because much of the development in the Detroits, Baltimores, and Clevelands of the world have been highly concentrated in just a handful of lucky neighborhoods.Graham is drawn into the situation discovering more about issues facing asylum seekers such as racism. My favourite part was when Graham and Joe went to the hospital and Joe met Peter Sinclair, I thought they had an extremely short but hilarious friendship, and their first conversation together was my favourite conversation In the entire book. In 1930, the community was reunited as a single town under the shared jurisdiction of both provinces, and reincorporated as a single city in 1958.

The cover speaks eloquently of the division in the city - Protestants on one side, Catholics on the other. He then proposes an interesting future vision for well-governed, resilient places that offer high quality of life and broad-based opportunity for all residents. Mallach explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. Divided Cities recounts the good, bad, indifferent but always eventful experience of journeying to 11 of the most prominent same-city derbies in world football.The football training is for a youth team to be known as Glasgow City which is about to take part in an inter-cities youth competition. Granted the dilemma of an asylum seeker from a ‘White List’ country, deemed to be safe but which isn’t, may need elucidating to a wider audience, yet while the novel is even-handed enough as between Protestant and Catholic viewpoints I struggled to see for what audience this could have been written, whom it was intended to educate. The two Glaswegians are united by a shared passion for playing football but divided by their family backgrounds and religious upbringing; one being a Protestant, Rangers supporter and the other a Catholic, Celtic fan.

That’s the question at the heart of scholar and urban practitioner Alan Mallach’s The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America. With these needs in mind, we turn to a panel of local policy-makers to discuss, compare, and contrast the challenges King County and the Puget Sound Region are facing in the wake of exponential growth. Graham’s Granda Reid is a proud Orangeman who wants Graham to march in the big Orange Walk which is coming up.

And yet, most of the attention — and the funding — goes not to buses, but to their far more glamorous cousins, light rail and trolleys. Throughout all this, equity needs to be the defining narrative to ensure that all people benefit, and no one is left behind. Mallach makes a compelling case that these strategies must be local in addition to being concrete and focusing on people’s needs—education, jobs, housing and quality of life.

offers a cogent, data-driven analysis of urban polarization, how we got here, and what it will take to create inclusive cities that work for all. But vast areas in the same cities house thousands of people living in poverty who see little or no new hope or opportunity. This crucial moment of Athenian political history, Nicole Loraux argues in The Divided City, must be interpreted as constitutive of, not a threat to, politics and political life. In a brilliant analysis of the Greek word for voting, diaphora, Loraux underscores the conflictual and dynamic motion of democratic life: voting appears as the process of dividing up, of disagreement, in short, of agreeing to divide up and choose between. This is a worthy topic, and Mallach demonstrates himself a capable narrator and a persuasive advocate.

Join Next City for another event in our online seminar series, this time with guest presenter Alan Mallach, author of the new book The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America.