Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Southern California 1989
J.D. University of California at Los Angeles 1975

Phone: 312-413-3782
Fax: 312-413-0440
E-Mail: mckenzie@uic.edu
Website: http://www.uic.edu/~mckenzie

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Fields of Interest:
Urban Politics, Law and Public Policy.

Selected Publications:
"Common Interest Housing in the Communities of Tomorrow" Housing Policy Debate (Fannie Mae Foundation, Fall 2003)

Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government. (Yale University Press, 1994, 1996).

"Homeowner Associations and California Politics." Urban Affairs Review, (1998).

"Reinventing Common Interest Developments." John Marshall Law Review, (1999).

"Rethinking the Practice of Community Association Law." Journal of Community Association Law, (1999).

"Reflections on a New Paradigm for the Governance of Common-Interest Communities." Chapter in Bill Overton (ed.), Community First: Emerging Visions Reshaping American’s Condominium and Homeowner Associations. (1999).

"The Politics of School Desegregation in Oak Park, Illinois," Great Cities Institute Working Paper GCP-00-1 (2000).

Current Research Areas:
Book on public policies designed to promote racial integration in Oak Park, Illinois

Studies of gated communities and homeowner association governance

Studies of privatization of public life and segmentation of urban and suburban areas

Selected Activities and Honors:
Delivered keynote address at international conference on "Gated Communities: Building Social Division or Safer Communities?"  September 18-19, 2003 Glasgow, Scotland.

Best Book on Urban Politics Award from American Political Science Association, 1995.