GEO 320 Urban Geography Fall 2007
Department of Geography and Meteorology, Valparaiso University
Lecture Outline

Poverty and Deprivation in the Western City

Theories of Deprivation

The Multiple Sources of Deprivation

Absolute poverty and Relative Poverty

Marginalized Subgroups

Spatial Patterns of Deprivation

• Sub-prime Lending

Types of Disadvantaged Areas