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Tables of Contents for Annual Editions
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
To the Reader
iv
Topic Guide
2
2
Selected World Wide Web Sites
4
2
UNIT 1 The Urban Frame
Overview
6
2
Fear of the City, 1783 to 1983
8
6
Alfred Kazin
Back to the Renaissance? A New Perspective on American Cities
14
13
Joel Kotkin
The Man Who Loved Cities
27
7
Nathan Glazer
UNIT 2 Sprawl: The Changing Shape of the Urban Landscape
Overview
32
2
The Exploding Metropolis: Why Growth Management Makes Sense
34
3
David Rusk
Are Europe's Cities Better?
37
5
Pietro S. Nivola
Is Regional Government the Answer?
42
6
Fred Siegel
Stalled in Paradise
48
8
Michael Massing
The Uses of Sprawl
56
4
Christopher Caldwell
UNIT 3 Urban Economies
Overview
58
2
Finding Markets Near Downtown
60
2
Eli Lehrer
Feisty Mom-and-Pops of Gotham Strike Back at Drugstore Chains
62
4
Laura Johannes
Hot Time in the City
66
5
Michael Hickins
New Immigrants Discover How to Create Own Jobs
71
1
Lisa Goff
Gotham's Workforce Woes
72
6
Heather Mac Donald
The Company They Keep
78
6
Emily Barker
UNIT 4 Urban Revival
Overview
82
2
Colleges Embracing Towns They Once Held at Arm's Length
84
2
Michael Grunwald
Culture's Power Houses: The Museum Becomes an Engine of Urban Redesign
86
3
Herbert Muschamp
Heard the One about Hip Newark?
89
5
Douglas Century
UNIT 5 Urban Policies and Politics
Overview
92
2
Why Liberalism Fled the City . . . and How It Might Come Back
94
10
Harold Meyerson
Broken Cities: Liberalism's Urban Legacy
104
10
Steven Hayward
Why Did Ed Rendell Fizzle Out?
114
10
Fred Siegel
Kay S. Hymowitz
Urban Outfitters
124
5
Mike Hofman
Willis Carrier's Ghost
129
7
William P. Barrett
UNIT 6 Urban Neighborhoods
Overview
134
2
Welcome Neighbors?
136
4
Ingrid Gould Ellen
Division Street
140
2
Eyal Press
Growing the Inner City?
142
7
Tamar Jacoby
Fred Siegel
In Liberty City, Hope for Economic Rebirth: Rebuilding Moves at Slow Pace
149
3
Mimi Whitefield
Razing the Slums to Rescue the Residents
152
6
Pam Belluck
The Geography of Cool
158
4
UNIT 7 Urban Problem: Education, Crime, and Welfare
Overview
160
2
A. EDUCATION
The Schools That Vouchers Built
162
8
Sol Stern
Loco, Completamente Loco
170
12
Glenn Garvin
B. CRIME
Broken Windows
182
8
James Q. Wilson
George L. Kelling
Rudy Awakening
190
6
Fred Siegel
Boston Cops and Black Churches
196
8
Christopher Winship
Jenny Berrien
C. WELFARE REFORM
Assessing Welfare Reform: Work Pays
204
6
Jack A. Meyer
UNIT 8 Urban Futures
Overview
208
2
Venture Kapital
210
9
Gary Wolf
Downtown: The Live-In Solution
219
3
Ellen Perlman
The Rebirth of America's Cities
222
3
Fred Siegel
Index
225
3
Test Your Knowledge
228
1
Article Rating Form
229