The immigrants to the United States since 1965 are overwhelmingly an urban population;
they have converged on a small number of large metropolitan areas. This article describes …

Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being
eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class …

The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and
what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe). On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans …

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban
Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing …

How can the United States create the political will to address our major urban problems—
poverty, unemployment, crime, traffic congestion, toxic pollution, education, energy …

There are a number of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in the literature on
environmental justice and environmental inequalities in need of refinement. Using data from …

Residential segregation between blacks and whites persists in urban America. However,
evidence from the 1990 Census suggests that peak segregation levels were reached in the …

Discussions of inner-city social dislocations are often severed from the struggles and
structural changes in the larger society, economy, and polity that in fact determine them …

The concept of “geography of opportunity” suggests that where individuals live affects their
opportunities. While multivariate analyses cannot control completely for individual self …

This revised edition examines major redevelopment efforts in New York and London to
uncover the forces behind these investment cycles and the role that public policy can play in …