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Part of the book series: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality ((NCUM))

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In this chapter, the authors examine the Detroit story within the evolving grand narrative of urban renewal, before examining the differential patterns of urban poverty within Census tract neighborhoods. The authors illustrate the patchwork pattern of neighborhood change in the early 2000s using Census tract data, as background for integrating neighborhood change in the analysis of student success, illustrating the potential of using Census tract data on neighborhoods in student success analysis.

Jiyun Kim developed analyses of GPS maps used in this chapter. Anna Chung collaborated on analysis of change in demographic indicators within Census tracts .

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St. John, E.P., Girmay, F. (2019). Global Competitiveness. In: Detroit School Reform in Comparative Contexts. Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19011-8_2

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