Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.

Looks at how contemporary Jewish neighborhoods interact with both local and transnational influences.

Tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation from small city to urban region.

An account of the origin, enactment, and implementation of Maryland’s Smart Growth land use program begun in 1966.

Disputes standard explanations of police brutality against minority citizens to offer new insights and suggestions on dealing with this problem.

The first in-depth examination of self-employment from the perspectives of low-income entrepreneurs.

The definitive source book on philosophy and the city.

Examines how and why government leaders understand and respond to African Americans and Latinos in northeastern cities with strong political traditions.

Argues that clean air policy is driven by locally oriented economic elites.

An overview and critical appraisal of the work of influential sociologist and public intellectual William Julius Wilson.

Discusses race-conscious jury selection and highlights strategies for achieving racially mixed juries.

Demonstrates how governmental structure and institutional rules determine who gets what in American cities.

A case study of Milwaukee, Wisconsin exploring how lending practices and access to capital are shaped by race.

Builds upon the narratives of community development activists to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities and empowerment within poor areas.

Links the plight of contemporary urban dwellers of African descent across North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, examines their coping strategies, and advocates social policies sensitive to their cultural and societal differences.

Bringing an empirical, objective approach to a topic that has often been the source of emotional and uninformed controversy, Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization provides an introduction ...

Ideology and the Urban Crisis explores the philosophical underpinnings of the contemporary debate surrounding the urban crisis. It examines three major ideologies of American city politics by uncovering ...

What forces transformed a community in which industrial workers and other citizens exercised a real measure of power over their lives into a metropolis whose inhabitants were utterly dependent on Big ...

This case study of a politically reformed, middle-sized Midwestern city provides a model of fiscal stress that contrasts sharply with that of America's vast metropolitan centers. Dr. Rubin examines the ...

With the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Louis D. Brandeis emerged as the undisputed intellectual leader of those reformers who were trying to recreate a democratic society free from the economic ...