Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation
Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship …

American cities today are simultaneously the same and different from Wilson's classic
portrayal in The Truly Disadvantaged ([1987] 2012), first published over 30 years ago …

This article provides suburban scholars with a starting point for considering how municipal
incorporation contributes to suburban inequality. I conduct an exploratory empirical analysis …

Although urban historians and sociologists date the development of early suburbs outside
US cities to the late 1800s and early 1900s, only a tiny and relatively privileged portion of the …

Herbert Gans' classic book, The Levittowners, has inspired generations of urban sociologists
studying American suburbs, but it has also confined the field's focus to studies of the local …

Poverty has increased significantly in US suburbs since the 1990s. What we know about
suburban poverty is largely limited to demographic and economic information. Building off …

The majority of Americans live and work in suburbs, but the social problems arising in these
communities are rarely studied by sociologists. Far more scholarly attention is devoted to …

Funded principally by the Ford Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, the Multi-City
Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI)—a primary data gathering initiative undertaken by an …

Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within
mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of …

Concern over the location of the 'urban poor'became a significant issue in the nineteenth
century as the negative outcomes of urbanized industrialism took their toll on the …