Annual Editions: Urban Society, 12/e

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To the Reader

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Topic Guide

xii

Selected World Wide Web Sites

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UNIT 1 The Urban Frame

Unit Overview

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Fear of the City, 1783 to 1983

2

(6)

Alfred Kazin

The Man Who Loved Cities

8

(4)

Nathan Glazer

The Death and Life of America's Cities

12

(10)

Fred Siegel

UNIT 2 Sprawl: Challenges to the Metropolitan Landscape

Unit Overview

20

(2)

Patio Man and the Sprawl People

22

(7)

David Brooks

Is Regional Government the Answer?

29

(5)

Fred Siegel

Downtown Struggles While Neighbor Thrives

34

(2)

Michael Brick

Unscrambling the City

36

(5)

Christopher Swope

Are Europe's Cities Better?

41

(7)

Pietro S. Nivola

UNIT 3 Urban Economies

Unit Overview

46

(2)

The Rise of the Creative Class

48

(8)

Richard Florida

Too Much Froth

56

(2)

Joel Kotkin

Fred Siegel

As Cities Move to Privatize Water, Atlanta Steps Back

58

(2)

Douglas Jehl

Packaging Cities

60

(3)

Rebecca Gardyn

Urban Warfare: American Cities Compete for Talent, and the Winners Take All

63

(7)

Blaine Harden

UNIT 4 Urban Revival

Unit Overview

68

(2)

Part A. Financing and Costs

Financing Urban Revitalization

70

(4)

Beth Mattson-Teig

Ground Zero in Urban Decline

74

(7)

Sam Staley

Return to Center

81

(3)

Christopher D. Ringwald

Part B. Downtown Renaissance: Culture, Tourism, and Education

New Village on Campus

84

(4)

John Handley

The Fall and Rise of Bryant Park

88

(2)

Julia Vitullo-Martin

Culture Club

90

(8)

Mike Sheridan

Midwestern Momentum

Beth Mattson-Teig

Part C. Immigration

Saving Buffalo From Extinction

98

(4)

David Blake

Movers & Shakers

102

(8)

Joel Kotkin

UNIT 5 Urban Politics and Policies

Unit Overview

108

(2)

Mayors and Morality: Daley and Lindsay Then and Now

110

(5)

Fred Siegel

Beyond Safe and Clean

115

(5)

Bridget Maley

Cathleen Malmstrom

Kellie Phipps

Bloomberg So Far

120

(3)

Fred Siegel

Harry Siegel

Brain-Gain Cities Attract Educated Young

123

(5)

Blain Harden

UNIT 6 Regentrification and Urban Neighborhoods

Unit Overview

126

(2)

Part A. On Gentrification

The Gentry, Misjudged as Neighbors

128

(2)

John Tierney

The Essence of Uptown

130

(3)

A. T. Palmer

Windows Not Broken

133

(4)

Harry Siegel

Amid Office Shuffle in San Francisco, Bohemian Rhapsody

137

(2)

Nick Wingfield

Rocking-Chair Revival

139

(3)

Leslie Mann

The Geography of Cool, The Economist, April 15, 2000

142

(2)

The Best of Mates

144

(4)

Andy Beckett

UNIT 7 Urban Problems: Crime, Education, and Poverty

Unit Overview

146

(2)

Broken Windows

148

(7)

James Q. Wilson

George L. Kelling

How an Idea Drew People Back to Urban Life

155

(2)

James Q. Wilson

Murder Mystery

157

(4)

John Buntin

Crossing the Line

161

(6)

Sasha Abramsky

Segregation in New York Under a Different Name

167

(2)

J. P. Avlon

In New York City, Fewer Find They Can Make It

169

(3)

Michael Powell

Chief Bratton Takes on L.A.

172

(8)

Heather Mac Donald

Police Line---Do Cross

180

(5)

Bob Roberts

An Inner-City Renaissance

185

(3)

Aaron Bernstein

The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Public Housing

188

(4)

Harry Siegel

UNIT 8 Urban Futures: Cities After September 11, 2001

Unit Overview

190

(2)

Time to Think Small?

192

(4)

Joel Kotkin

A View From the South

196

(4)

John Shelton Reed

Model Cities; What New York Can Learn from the Economic Recoveries in Houston and L.A.

200

(3)

Joel Kotkin

Index

203

(3)

Test Your Knowledge Form

206

(1)

Article Rating Form

207

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