Community in Transition: Mobility, Integration, and Conflict

by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Hanna Ayalon

How can depressed communities be upgraded? One approach is to import settlers with higher incomes. In a unique experiment in Israel, this approach was utilized, and the results are the focus of the Ayalon, Ben-Rafael, and Yogev study.

The three authors examine the costs and benefits of an experiment in community change in Mobiltown. The experiment, which brought higher status people to a poor community, is evaluated on the basis of surveys,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031328699X
• ISBN13: 9780313286995
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"