Gentrification, the conversion of socially marginal and working-class areas of the central city
to middle-class residential use, reflects a movement, that began in the 1960s, of private …

Transformations in the composition and locational patterns of the economy have assumed
specific forms in cities and in the urban hierarchy. The new service-dominated urbanization …

Have the last two decades produced a New York composed of two separate and unequal
cities? As the contributors to Dual City reveal, the complexity of inequality in New York defies …

This paper explores emerging forms for the system and practice of British planning, set in the
context of managing conflicts over the use and development of land, and promoting …

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary
approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and …

A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-
making framework for healthy city planning. In distressed urban neighborhoods where …

" It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without
food, without shelter, without security."—Homeless woman in Grand Central StationKim …

In the past two decades powerful economic, social, and fiscal forces have buffeted America's
major cities. The urbanization of poverty, the shift in employment from manufacturing to …

The degree to which urban resources are distributed equitably is a research question that
continues to be debated. While research dealing with urban service delivery has proliferated …

“Economic and political forces no longer combat poverty—they generate poverty!" exclaim
William Goldsmith and Edward Blakely in their report on the plight of American's urban poor …