"This book is particularly effective in its discussion of the policy implications of large theoretical questions about urban revitalization that often go unexamined."--American Planning Association Journal
"A comprehensive, cohesive, and up-to-date assessment of the prospects for community-led initiatives to bring about healthier, progressive cities. While acknowledging that there are broad political and economic forces that buffet the city and that are outside residents' immediate control, the contributors identify ways in which even low-income neighborhoods can take things, productively, into their own hands. The collection strikes the right balance between visionary optimism and hard-headed realism."--Jeffrey R. Henig, author of Neighborhood Mobilization: Redevelopment and Response"This volume goes well beyond the collection of 'success stories' that make up much of the literature on urban neighborhoods. It brings together the leading scholars on urban neighborhoods to present a compelling argument that, as in the past, neighborhoods substantially define the civic life of cities--and that policies that would help urban residents must aim to revitalize the fundamental unit of civic culture, the neighborhood."--Dennis Judd, coauthor of City Politics: Private Power and Public Policy
"An interesting and readable mix of discussions of general neighborhood issues and profiles of particular cities, neighborhoods, and neighborhood movement leaders."--John C. Thomas, author of Between Citizen and City: Neighborhood Organizations and Urban Politics
"A comprehensive, cohesive, and up-to-date assessment of the prospects for community-led initiatives to bring about healthier, progressive cities. While acknowledging that there are broad political and economic forces that buffet the city and that are outside residents' immediate control, the contributors identify ways in which even low-income neighborhoods can take things, productively, into their own hands. The collection strikes the right balance between visionary optimism and hard-headed realism."--Jeffrey R. Henig, author of Neighborhood Mobilization: Redevelopment and Response"This volume goes well beyond the collection of 'success stories' that make up much of the literature on urban neighborhoods. It brings together the leading scholars on urban neighborhoods to present a compelling argument that, as in the past, neighborhoods substantially define the civic life of cities--and that policies that would help urban residents must aim to revitalize the fundamental unit of civic culture, the neighborhood."--Dennis Judd, coauthor of City Politics: Private Power and Public Policy
"An interesting and readable mix of discussions of general neighborhood issues and profiles of particular cities, neighborhoods, and neighborhood movement leaders."--John C. Thomas, author of Between Citizen and City: Neighborhood Organizations and Urban Politics
About the Author
W. Dennis Keating is professor and associate dean of the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University and the author of Cleveland: A Metropolitan Reader and The Suburban Racial Dilemma: Housing and Neighborhoods. Norman Krumholz is professor of urban planning at Cleveland State University and coauthor of Re-Inventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories.
Philip Star is director of the Center for Neighborhood Development at Cleveland State University.
Contributors: Reynard N. Blake, Jr.; Rachel G. Bratt; Peter Dreier; Susan S. Fainstein; Robert Fisher; Robert Giloth; Edward G. Goetz; Clifford Hirst; W. Dennis Keating; Norman Krumholz; Jacqueline Leavitt; Edward M. Miggins; Janet Smith; Gregory D. Squires; Philip Star; June Manning Thomas; Avis C. Vidal.
