Urban Affairs Review articles from March 1997

Urban Affairs Review archives from March 1997

The community option in urban policy.
March 1, 1997... In this article, we explore the possibilities for a community option in federal and local urban policy. These possibilities arise from the growth of nonprofit voluntary associations--particularly community development corporations (CDCs)--in...

Urban politics, governing nonprofits, and community revitalization.
March 1, 1997... Indeed, in one version of liberal theory, government can do nothing for citizens that a complex array of mutual-benefit societies could not in principle do better and less coercively. --Elkin (1985, 1) Students of local politics have long...

Local policy subsystems and issue definition: an analysis of community development policy change.
March 1, 1997... In this article, we use policy subsystems analysis as a means of explaining local public policy change. The concept of a policy subsystem is that public policy issues attract small but intensely interested networks of actors who tend to...

Historic preservation and progrowth politics in U.S. cities.
March 1, 1997... Over the past several decades, a fundamental transformation has occurred in the nature of urban development. No longer are there the large-scale projects of clean-sweep destruction and rebuilding that characterized urban renewal in the 1950s...

The limits of urban regime theory: New York City under Koch, Dinkins, and Giuliani. (Mayors Edward Koch, David Dinkins and Rudolph Giuliani)
March 1, 1997... Does local polities still matter? Many urban scholars of the past two decades have shifted their focus from a traditional concern with local polities to the relationship between cities and the larger economic environment (Peterson 1981; Tabb...

City-suburban income disparities and metropolitan area employment: can tightening labor markets reduce the gaps?
March 1, 1997... Disparities in per capita income between central cities and their suburbs are a well-known and disturbing feature of metropolitan areas in the United States. In 1990, the real mean per capita income of the suburbs of large metropolitan areas...

Breaking Away: The Future of Cities: Essays in Memory of Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
March 1, 1997... Julia Vitullo-Martin, ed., Breaking Away: The Future of Cities: Essays in Memory of Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1996), 255 pp., $21.95 (cloth). Breaking Away: The Future of Cities was conceived as a joint...

Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places.
March 1, 1997... Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin, Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places (London: Routledge, 1996), 434 pp., $22.95 (paper). One of the most compelling but understudied phenomenon in cities today is the rapidly...

New Communications Networks: Wired for Change.
March 1, 1997... Douglas Schuler, New Communications Networks: Wired for Change (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1996), 528 pp., $26.85 (paper). One of the most compelling but understudied phenomenon in cities today is the rapidly changing telecommunications...

Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams.
March 1, 1997... Charles Rutheiser, Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams (London and New York: Verso, 1996), 324 pp., $18.95 (paper). The 1996 Summer Olympics, Rutheiser argues in his ambitious critical urban history...

Community Power in a Postreform City: Politics in New York City.
March 1, 1997... Robert F. Pecorella, Community Power in a Postreform City: Politics in New York City (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1994), 232 pp., $54.95 (cloth). New York City politics present an unusually challenging task for the analyst because of the...