caa a22 4500 477055567 CHVBK 20180405111346.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961101xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2061773 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.2307/2061773 Massey Douglas Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA aut The age of extremes: Concentrated affluence and poverty in the twenty-first century [Elektronische Daten] [Douglas Massey] Urbanization, rising income inequality, and increasing class segregation have produced a geographic concentration of affluence and poverty throughout the world, creating a radical change in the geographic basis of human society. As the density of poverty rises in the environment of the world's poor, so will their exposure to crime, disease, violence. and family disruption. Meanwhile the spatial concentration of affluence will enhance the benefits and privileges of the rich. In the twenty-first century the advantages and disadvantages of one's class position will be compounded and reinforced through ecological mechanisms made possible by the geographic concentration of affluence and poverty, creating a deeply divided and increasingly violent social world. Population Association of America, 1996 Demography Springer-Verlag 33/4(1996-11-01), 395-412 0070-3370 33:4<395 1996 33 13524 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061773 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061773 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Massey Douglas Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Demography Springer-Verlag 33/4(1996-11-01), 395-412 0070-3370 33:4<395 1996 33 13524 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer