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
Clark University
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: September 2011
Heritage Conservation Districts Work: Evidence from the Province of Ontario, Canada, by Robert Shipley, Kayla Jonas, Jason F. Kovacs
Tolerance in the Postindustrial City: Assessing the Ethnocentrism of Less Educated Natives in 22 Dutch Cities, by Jeroen van der Waal, Dick Houtman
The Housing Transition in Mexico: Expanding Access to Housing Finance, by Paavo Monkkonen
Conflict and Cooperation in Municipalities: Do Variations in Form of Government Have an Effect?, by Kimberly L. Nelson, Karl Nollenberger
Research Note
Multiple Deprivations in Transitional Chinese Cities: A Case Study of Guangzhou, by Yuan Yuan, Fulong Wu, Xueqiang Xu
Book Review: The Good City: Reflections and Imaginations, by Allan B. Jacobs, reviewed by John Friedmann
Upcoming Issue: November 2011
Which U.S. Cities Adopt Living Wage Ordinances? Predictors of Adoption of a New Labor Tactic, 1994-2006, by Heidi Swarts, Ion Bogdan Vasi
Can They Afford the Rent? Resident Cost Burden in Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments, by Anne R. Williamson
A Strategy for Neighborhood Decline and Regrowth: Forging the French Connection, by H. V. Savitch
Illinois' Municipal Telecommunications Tax: Tax Base Elasticity and Revenue Potential, by Yonghong Wu, David Merriman
New Directions
Understanding the Pursuit of Happiness in Ten Major Cities, by Kevin M. Leyden, Abraham Goldberg, Philip Michelbach
Book Review: Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown, by Sean Safford, reviewed by John R. Baker
Book Review: Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, by Jessica Ellen Sewell, reviewed by John Elrick
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.