Objectives This paper offers novel experimental evidence that violent crimes can be
successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and …

Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and
others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic …

In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings
possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed …

Barrios does a masterful job in moving beyond the hype of the 'Latinization'of US urban
areas and instead offers a deeply historicized account of the rise of Latinx-majority cities …

This article considers how insurgent campaigns for housing the poor in New York City and
Chicago succeeded in engaging the local state, non‐profits and financial institutions in the …

Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen Award
A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America As …

Detractors have called it" The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America's" Comeback City."
According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long sought to defeat its perceived civic …

In struggles for dignified housing and greater agency, housing justice organizers often rely
on an alternative valuation of urban space, based in community rights, which elevates the …

Squatting and the State offers a new theoretical and methodological approach for analyzing
state response to squatting, homelessness, empty land, and housing. Embedded in local …

Mothers who had a nonmarital birth experience multiple risk factors for depression, including
housing instability. Yet, important questions remain about the extent of long-term housing …