America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined
sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades. How much of this …

This article describes the population forces that caused US metropolitan areas to grow
rapidly after 1940 but caused falling population in many large older cities. It shows why the …

Recent years have seen unprecedented revitalization in many of America's older industrial
cities. The dynamics of revitalization, however, have tended to concentrate population and …

Although moderate to high social and economic heterogeneity are typical of suburbs as well
as central cities, the black population has become highly segregated residen tially. This …

Page 1 Race Poverty and American Cities EDITED BY JOHN CHARLES BOGER JUDITH
WELSH WEGNER Page 2 Page 3 Race, Poverty, and American Cities Page 4 Page 5 Race …

The existence of racially and ethnically diverse urban neighborhoods is one of our Nation's
best-kept secrets. Instead of telling about these places, the media regularly report on the …

This volume, one in a series of Brookings Studies by the authors, explores the causes and
future of urban growth and decline in US cities with populations of more than 100,000 by …

Urbanisation patterns in the United States have taken some unlikely turns over the past
quarter of a century.) fter following fairly predictable trends in the 1950s and 1960s towards …

On June 22, 1982, I traveled to Gary, Indiana, to interview for the position of chairman of the
Department of Minority Studies at Indiana University's branch campus located there. Gary …

Recent years have brought a dramatic transformation of the North American inner city. The
decade of the 1990s certainly began on a dystopian note: the recession punctuated two …