Urban Affairs Review
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Editors
Susan E. Clarke
University of Colorado, Boulder
Michael A. Pagano
University of Illinois at Chicago
Book Review Editor
University of New Mexico
Managing Editor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sponsored by The Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago photo courtesy of www.windycityart.com
Current Issue: January 2010
"Community" in Mixed-Income Developments: Assumptions, Approaches, and Early Experiences, by Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L. Joseph
The Evolution of Citizenship in a Divided Urban Community: Local Citizen Engagement in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by R. Allen Hays
Gender Differences in Willingness to Pay for Urban Public Services, by Nicholas O. Alozie and Catherine McNamara
Urban Managers and Public Policy: Do Institutional Arrangements Influence Decisions to Initiate Policy?, by Timothy B. Krebs and John P. Pelissero
Research Note
Crafting Urban Policy: The Conditions of Public Support for Urban Policy Initiatives, by Eric D. Lawrence, Robert Stoker and Hal Wolman
Book Reviews
Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer, by Wendell E. Pritchett, reviewed by W. Dennis Keating
Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy, by Kevin Fox Gotham, reviewed by Dennis Judd
Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven, by Mandi Isaacs Jackson, reviewed by Peter Eisinger
The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty, and the Politics of Crime Control by Lisa L. Miller, reviewed by Charles C. Turner
Upcoming Issue: March 2010
The Logic of Institutional Interdependency: The Case of Day Laborer Policy in Suburbia, by Lorrie A. Frasure and Michael Jones-Correa
Rethinking Bridging: Risk and Trust in Multiracial Community Organizing, by Lara Rusch
The Value(s) of Space: The Discourses and Strategies of Residential Exclusion in Cape Town and Long Island , by Charlotte Lemanski and Grant Saff
Research Note
Adaptation of Models Versus Variations in Form: Classifying Structures of City Government, by Kimberly L. Nelson, James H. Svara
Book Reviews
God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church–State Collaboration in Black America, by Michael Leo Owens, reviewed by Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs
Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers, by Jessica Trounstine, reviewed by Anirudh V.S. Ruhil
Segregation: The Rising Costs for America , by James H. Carr and Nandinee K. Kutty, eds., reviewed by Dennis Keating
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City, by Mary Pattillo, reviewed by Larry Bennett
The People's Property? Power, Politics, and the Public, by Lynn A. Staeheli and Don Mitchell, reviewed by Susan Fainstein
Blue Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class, by Karyn Lacy, reviewed by Lester Spence
Special Sections:
Urban Colloquy
Urban Colloquy features brief, engaging, and timely essays on contemporary urban issues and emerging intellectual debates. By drawing on UAR Board Members and reviewers, we can promise an expedited peer-review process and publication schedule. We invite UAR readers to take advantage of this opportunity to reflect on our times and the role of urban scholarship.
New Directions
New Directions is a section in the Urban Affairs Review that features peer-reviewed articles that use innovative research strategies to address important theoretical and empirical issues. By highlighting a full range of methodological approaches, we hope to encourage urban scholars to move beyond the quantitative debates, conventional case study versus large N orientations, and applied versus basic research. Although reviewers will continue to critically examine the logic of inquiry, the rigor of the analyses, and the unique contributions of each article, they are also being asked to assess innovative and interesting methodological strategies. We invite UAR readers to submit manuscripts that will contribute to the theoretical and methodological diversity of the journal.