Wiley: Journal of Urban Affairs: Table of Contents

QUALITY OF LIFE AMENITIES AS CONTRIBUTORS TO LOCAL ECONOMIES: VIEWS OF CITY MANAGERS

JAMES M. VANDERLEEUW, JASON C. SIDES — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

ABSTRACT

Is the level of importance attached to quality of life amenities, such as parks and restaurants, influenced by the objectives of the economic development strategy developed by city leaders? This research question drives the analysis presented in this article. We consider municipal leaders’ views of community amenities and how these opinions are influenced by the desire to either create jobs for community residents or generate greater municipal revenue. We evaluate the expectation that the need to generate city revenue will exert the greatest influence on the perceived importance of community amenities. Findings are generated using original survey data from city managers of 133 Texas cities. The results confirm expectations that city managers view quality of life amenities as more efficacious in contributing to revenue generation than job creation. The impact of these findings for the understanding of how city managers promote certain economic development strategies is discussed.

RESCALING AMBITIONS: WATERFRONT GOVERNANCE AND TORONTO'S 2015 PAN AMERICAN GAMES

LEWIS BELLAS, ROBERT OLIVER — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

ABSTRACT

Toronto is a rare global city because negotiating public land ownership remains a defining feature of the city's urban politics. The awarding of the 2015 Pan American Games to Toronto is a prime occasion to witness how fragmented governance can limit the ambition and enthusiasm of a sporting mega-event. Historically, Toronto has not been known for its ability to host large-scale sporting events but it has recently used a series of failed Olympic bids and smaller sporting events to trigger piecemeal “legacy” development. In this article we argue that the awarding of the Pan American Games to Toronto was predicated on a process that removed local politics from the bidding process. Focusing on the development of the athletes’ village in the West Don Lands and incorporating a number of interviews with key stakeholders across Toronto, this research illustrates that the heavy involvement and investment of the Province of Ontario in the Pan American spectacle forces us to ask: Whose waterfront? Whose games?

EXAMINING CHANGES IN LONG‐TERM NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING VACANCY DURING THE 2011 TO 2014 U.S. NATIONAL RECOVERY

DAN IMMERGLUCK — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

ABSTRACT

High levels of neighborhood housing vacancy—especially periods exceeding more than several months—have long been a concern to community developers and policymakers in the United States. During the foreclosure crisis, such concerns became more pronounced, exemplified by the adoption of three legislated rounds of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program from 2008 to 2011. Despite such concern, what we know about longer term neighborhood housing vacancy has been limited, in part by a lack of good data. This article utilizes data from the U.S. Postal Service to explore changes in vacancy over a critical period of broader housing market recovery. It identifies the extent to which neighborhood characteristics predict changes in long-term vacancy from 2011 to 2014 for the 50 largest metropolitan areas. High neighborhood vacancy rates persisted in some neighborhoods during this period, and these tended to be high-poverty neighborhoods. Neighborhoods with more Hispanic and Asian residents experienced larger declines in long-term vacancy. However, poorer neighborhoods lagged significantly. If a neighborhood had a poverty rate that was one standard deviation above—and a median income that was one standard deviation below—an otherwise comparable neighborhood, it was expected to see 13% more vacancies at the end of the period.

SELF‐ORGANIZING GOVERNANCE OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: INFORMAL POLICY NETWORKS AND REGIONAL INSTITUTIONS

CHRISTOPHER V. HAWKINS, QIAN HU, RICHARD C. FEIOCK — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

ABSTRACT

Economic development is a policy area where competition tends to be the norm, but it is also one in which cities cooperate through a variety of formal and informal mechanisms. Taking a social network approach, we examine the roles of informal policy networks and regional institutions in strengthening formal collaboration between city governments in economic development. Network relationship data were collected from city governments in the Orlando metropolitan area. We highlight the importance of informal interactions between city governments for collaborative agreements and identify the critical roles that regional institutions can play in moderating the effect of informal relationships on collaborative agreements. The conclusion argues for urban research to pay greater attention to how networks shape collective action among local governments.

NEIGHBORHOOD DIVERSITY, ECONOMIC HEALTH, AND THE ROLE OF THE ARTS

NICOLE FOSTER, CARL GRODACH, JAMES MURDOCH — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

ABSTRACT

Policymakers pursue a range of strategies aimed at diversifying neighborhoods despite research indicating the complicated and potentially damaging results of these efforts. One increasingly common approach is to incorporate the arts into planning efforts in the hope of enhancing diversity and catalyzing positive neighborhood change. Using data from the Cultural Data Project, the authors determine where newly established New York City arts organizations locate in terms of neighborhood racial, income, and industry diversity. They then analyze how diverse contexts interact with an arts presence to impact neighborhood economic health over time. They find that neighborhoods with high levels of racial diversity and low levels of income and industry diversity benefit most from an arts presence. However, the arts are attracted predominantly to neighborhoods with moderate levels of racial diversity and high levels of income and industry diversity. This complicates the use of the arts as a tool in urban revitalization policy.

Lewis D. Solomon, Detroit: Three Pathways to Revitalization (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2014). Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy (New York: Penguin Books, 2013).

Denese M. Neu — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 695-696, December 2016.

June Manning Thomas, Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2013). John Gallagher, Revolution Detroit: Strategies for Urban Reinvention (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2013).

Heather Khan — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 693-695, December 2016.

Sarah Jo Peterson, Planning the Home Front: Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013).

Katrin B. Anacker — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 692-693, December 2016.

Amy L. Howard, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).

Edward G. Goetz — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 697-698, December 2016.

Issue Information ‐ Editorial Board

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 605-605, December 2016.

Issue Information ‐ TOC

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Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 606-606, December 2016.

NEIGHBORHOOD‐LEVEL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND CRIME

CHRISTINA PLERHOPLES STACY, HELEN HO, ROLF PENDALL — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Theories of criminology suggest that neighborhood-level economic activity affects the conditions that make crime more likely. However, most studies on neighborhoods and crime focus solely on residential characteristics and ignore the commercial ones. In this article, we estimate the effect of neighborhood-level economic activity on crime holding residential characteristics constant. To do so, we use crime and census data combined with a detailed data set on establishments in Washington, DC from 2000 to 2010 to create a comprehensive measure of neighborhood-level economic activity. We exploit the panel nature of the data to identify the directionality of the results by removing unobserved heterogeneity and estimating lags and leads of economic activity. Results indicate that increases in economic activity are associated with reductions in property crime, but that the reduction in property crime occurs before the growth in economic activity and rises afterward. Violent crime declines the same year as growth in economic activity.

EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

JEFFERY L. OSGOOD, SUSAN M. OPP, MEGAN DEMASTERS — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Local economic development and environmental policy are two areas that are undeniably linked. While a great deal of research highlights the need to marry these two concepts in practice, much remains unknown about what cities are doing at that intersection. This article uses two recent International City/County Management Association (ICMA) surveys to explore the patterns that exist between local economic development policy and local environmental protection policy. The findings here suggest that localities have begun to make the connection between sustainability and economic development. However, the connection is constrained by economic context, level of economic competition, and whether a sustainability policy offers co-benefit potential.

FROM OLD SUBURB TO POST‐SUBURB: THE POLITICS OF RETROFIT IN THE INNER SUBURB OF UPPER ARLINGTON, OHIO

GLENNON SWEENEY, BERNADETTE HANLON — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Many scholars discuss post-suburbia in terms of the urbanization of edge cities, an evolving built-up periphery, or as a broader trend of decline among older suburbs alongside new outer-ring suburban growth. This article explores the post-suburban thesis in the context of the older, inner suburb of Upper Arlington, Ohio, located in the Columbus metropolitan area. This suburb is shifting from a traditional residential community to a more complex mix of domiciliary and economic functions, a process of redevelopment we characterize as a shift from an old suburb to a post-suburb. Based on qualitative interviews and analysis, we find that the politics of redevelopment in the older, landlocked suburb of Upper Arlington is contentious, and driven in large part by this suburb's need to overcome fiscal stress and maintain its competitive edge in the new metropolitan economy. We suggest that New Urbanist suburbanization for older, inner suburbs is influenced by their desire to remain competitive in a highly fragmented metropolis.

BOARD CONFLICT AND PUBLIC PERFORMANCE ON URBAN AND NON‐URBAN BOARDS: EVIDENCE FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS

MICHAEL R. FORD, DOUGLAS M. IHRKE — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

In this article a national sample of survey data collected from U.S. school board members paired with school-district level data from the National Center for Education Statistics are used to test the relationships between board conflict and school district performance. We add to the existing governance literature through our use of a national data set and specific focus on the impact of conflict on urban school boards. The analysis indicates a negative relationship between board conflict and district performance that is magnified on urban school boards. We conclude that school board members in general can improve school district performance by mitigating potential sources of board conflict, and that the importance of reducing conflict is greater on urban school boards.

CITIZENS’ VIEWS ON GOVERNANCE IN TWO SWEDISH CITY‐REGIONS

NIKLAS EKLUND — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Starting from metropolitan governance theory, this article explores and discusses place-specific institutional preferences among Swedish citizens with regard to city-regional governance. City-regional tendencies in the Swedish political context are described and, specifically, survey data from the Umeå and Göteborg areas in Sweden are utilized in two ways. First, three ideal-typical governance categories are conceptualized drawing on empirical patterns in the survey material. Preferences for the three emergent categories Status Quo, Regionalization, and Consolidation are then tested against independent variables measuring personal resources, sense of place, mobility, political view, and city-regional context. By way of multiple regression analysis, the article concludes with a discussion about some expected and unexpected results. In the final analysis, individual preferences for the three different models of city-regional governance seem to be influenced first and foremost by level of education and sense of place and whether or not the individual resides in a municipality which belongs to the core or to the periphery of the area.

THE SURVIVAL OF PROGRESSIVE URBAN POLITICS AMID ECONOMIC ADVERSITY

DONALD L. ROSDIL — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Progressive politics made its initial appearance in the urban policy arena in smaller communities in the 1979–1981 period. But while some may have regarded it as a passing fad, it has displayed surprising resilience and durability over the past three decades, becoming entrenched in large cities as well. Yet despite its remarkable success, the Great Recession of 2008 and a stubbornly slow and uneven recovery challenge the future viability of a progressive agenda in U.S. cities. This article assesses the recent achievements and future prospects of a progressive regime in Seattle. After first reviewing the social and economic context within which policymaking occurs, it examines how local government agencies justify recent policy initiatives in three key policy domains. This review reveals that support for progressive reform has remained stable and vibrant in that city throughout the recent recession and subsequent economic recovery. At the same time, decision makers’ rationale for progressive measures has evolved from a focus on the effects of the recession to an emphasis on the consequences of prosperity. The analysis attributes progressive policies to the joint influence of morally nontraditional ways of life and growing postindustrial economic sectors. It concludes that the mutually reinforcing impacts of cultural nontraditionalism and the global economy guarantee the future survival of an urban progressive agenda regardless of national economic conditions.

Nilson Ariel Espino, Building the Inclusive City: Theory and Practice for Confronting Urban Segregation (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2015).

Christoph Haferburg — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

POLICY OUTCOMES, INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ECONOMIC WELL‐BEING

LONNIE HANNON, RONIKIA BEANE, GEORGE MUNCHUS — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Policy outcomes influence the economic life chances of urban residents, many of whom are African American. While privileged groups have benefitted from such outcomes, state and national policy have often served as an impediment to the economic well-being of African Americans. In today's digital age economic paradigm, African Americans—a population whose economic life chances are traditionally depended on manufacturing and unionism—would benefit from policy that invests in human capital development. While examining the top 50 cities with the largest African American population, this analysis revealed positive associations between state investment in human capital and growth indicators of economic well-being among urban African Americans.

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS AMONG HOMELESS PEOPLE: ANOMALY OR NECESSITY?

DONALD C. REITZES, JOSIE PARKER, TIMOTHY CRIMMINS, ERIN E. RUEL — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

This study investigates how homeless people in downtown Atlanta access and use cell phones, internet, and email. The findings include the following: (1) over 60% of homeless people in this study owned a cell phone, used the internet, or had email access; (2) number of times homelessness was related to cell phone ownership and frequency of use; (3) age group was related to computer knowledge, internet frequency, and having an email account; and (4) age group and homeless locations were related to some uses of cell phone, whereas age group, homeless locations, and length of time homeless were related to some uses of email. The findings suggest that providing the homeless with better access to cell phones may enable social service agencies to maintain closer ties to the homeless and improve outreach services.

WHERE ARE THE COST SAVINGS IN CITY–COUNTY CONSOLIDATION?

CHARLES D. TAYLOR, DAGNEY FAULK, PAMELA SCHAAL — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Although proposals for city–county consolidation are often justified on the basis of reducing government expenditures or improving efficiency, few studies find that expenditures are actually reduced after consolidation. This study examines long-term spending trends in four consolidated city–county jurisdictions for periods of eight to ten years pre- and post-consolidation. Although the results of the four cases are mixed, we find that in some cases there are cost savings associated with city–county consolidation, more frequently in specific functional categories than in overall spending. We also find that it is necessary to examine spending patterns over several years after consolidation. In some cases, short-term savings dissipate over time. In other cases, initially modest savings grow over time due to a reduction in spending growth.

SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AFTER PARENTS INVOLVED: THE COMPLICATIONS OF PURSUING DIVERSITY IN A HIGH‐STAKES ACCOUNTABILITY ERA

ERICA FRANKENBERG, SARAH DIEM, COLLEEN CLEARY — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Academic disparities among racial groups persist, which may be due in part to persisting school segregation. This study focuses on how student achievement affects diversity efforts within two urban-suburban school districts in the South experiencing demographic changes with a history of voluntary integration efforts: Jefferson County Public Schools (Louisville, KY) and the Wake County Public School System (Raleigh, NC). We found that diversity and accountability intersected in different ways: in both districts there is a belief that diversity does matter, but with a divergence of opinion in its relative importance the details of how to accomplish diversity are contested. Our case studies are a cautionary tale of how the increased focus on achievement and accountability complicates efforts to pursue other long-held district goals. Instead of seeing diversity and improving student outcomes as separate, policymakers should re-evaluate how existing policies may unintentionally cause districts to end beneficial policies like desegregation.

Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil (Eds.), Suburban Governance: A Global View (Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2015).

Annika Marlen Hinze — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Nicholas Dagen Bloom, The Metropolitan Airport: JFK International and Modern New York (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Janet R. Bednarek — Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Anne B. Shlay and Gillad Rosen, Jerusalem: The Spatial Politics of a Divided Metropolis (Cambridge, UK: Policy Press, 2015).

Yona Ginsberg — Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Eric S. Zeemering, Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Cities: Economy, Environment, and Community in Baltimore (New York: Routledge, 2014).

Carla Chifos — Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Efrat Eizenberg, From the Ground Up: Community Gardens in New York City and the Politics of Spatial Transformation (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013).

Roger Mark Selya — Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Matthew D. Marr, Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).

Dennis P. Culhane — Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Vicki Howard, From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Conrad Kickert — Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Robin Hambleton, Leading the Inclusive City: Place‐Based Innovation for a Bounded Planet (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2015).

Dennis Keating — Sun, 08 May 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Paul D. Numrich and Elfriede Wedam, Religion and Community in the New Urban America (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Jason A. Fout — Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham, and Sako Musterd (Eds.), Socio‐Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016).

Rory Coulter — Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Susan D. Greenbaum, Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images About Poverty (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015).

David Imbroscio — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0700

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDING FOR URBAN SCHOOLS

JEFFREY W. SNYDER, SARAH RECKHOW — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

K-12 education philanthropy has grown rapidly since 2000, with major funders like the Gates and Walton foundations expanding their grant portfolios. We examine whether and to what degree place-based characteristics help explain funding for local school districts. Using an original database of grants from the 15 largest K-12 education foundations to the largest school districts in 2000, 2005, and 2010, we present three main findings. First, the set of districts receiving the most funds varies over time. Second, foundations tended to give to sites with capacity for reform in 2000; yet by 2010, funders increasingly targeted places embracing philanthropic priorities, including charter schools and Teach for America. Finally, major foundations increasingly gave grants to same districts as other major funders—producing a convergent pattern of funding. These rapid and dramatic changes introduce questions about how foundations and districts interact and whether these funds will produce sustained reforms.

MOVING BEYOND THE URBAN/RURAL CLEAVAGE: MEASURING VALUES AND POLICY PREFERENCES ACROSS RESIDENTIAL ZONES IN CANADA

DAVID MCGRANE, LOLEEN BERDAHL, SCOTT BELL — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Despite urban forms becoming more varied, analysts continue to use a dichotomous urban/rural distinction when examining political attitudes. Using geocoding, our analysis of original survey data adopts a four-residential-zone approach to exploring Canadian political values and policy preferences: inner city, suburban, small urban, and rural. We find that an ideological polarization between inner city residents on the left and the rest of Canadians on the right emerges and is most pronounced when it comes to values related to new ideology and policy preferences concerning taxation, moral policies, and spending on social assistance. Within large urban centers specifically, suburbanites are more socially conservative than are inner city residents, while divisions between the two groups are smaller with respect to economic issues and the welfare state. We suggest that researchers should replace the binary category of urban/rural for political analyses with a residential zone approach in order to better capture the complexity of contemporary urbanity.

TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF RACIAL SEGREGATION IN THE UNITED STATES: AN ANALYSIS OF HOUSEHOLD RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY

KWAN OK LEE — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

This is the first study of temporal segregation dynamics based on the full analysis of household residential mobility, including non-moves and intra- and inter-neighborhood moves in the United States over the last four decades (1971–2009). Analysis results demonstrate the decreases in both white flight and white avoidance over time. Whites stayed shorter in black-white neighborhoods than in predominantly white neighborhoods until 1990, but this has been no longer significant during the past two decades. The tendency that whites are less likely to move to racially homogeneous neighborhoods than moving within or across racially mixed neighborhoods was significant only after 1990. These two results explain the aggregate-level segregation trend that black-white neighborhoods have experienced the most significant drop in the probability of transitioning into racially homogeneous neighborhoods and that the share of racially mixed neighborhoods has significantly increased over time. Analysis results further suggest that increasing racial diversity and the reduction in racial segregation in metropolitan areas have likely contributed to changes in whites’ residential mobility.

PATTERNS OF URBAN GOVERNANCE: A SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF LONG‐TERM INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN SIX CANADIAN CITIES

JACK LUCAS — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

How do the institutional structures of urban policymaking develop over time? To answer this question, scholars have often focused on one of three contexts: the city in which a set of policy institutions exists, the higher-order government with legislative authority over those institutions, or the policy domain in which a policy task is administered. Few studies have compared the relative importance of these contexts for understanding the long-term development of urban policy institutions. In this article, I compare long-term sequences of urban policy institutions, understood as the historical development of the formal institutional structures in which urban policies are developed and administered, across six Canadian cities, three provinces, and five policy domains. I use optimal matching methods to compare the sequences, and I find that patterns of resemblance among the sequences are most clearly sorted by policy domain, with shared province playing an important secondary role. These findings point toward a new research agenda for urban governance scholars, one less focused on individual cities and more attuned to the ways that cities operate as actors and sites within broader policy fields that operate not only across the boundaries of individual cities, but across the boundaries of higher-order governments as well.

Katrin Anacker (Ed.). The New American Suburb: Poverty, Race, and the Economic Crisis (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015).

Alexandra K. Murphy — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Peter Hendee Brown, How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Terry Farris — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephen Samuel Smith, and Amy Hawn Nelson (Eds.), Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2015).

Kerrin Wolf — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Christoph Haferburg and Marie Huchzermeyer (Eds.), Urban Governance In Post‐Apartheid Cities: Modes of Engagement in South Africa's Metropoles (Stuttgart, Germany: Borntraeger Science Publishers, 2014).

Myriam Houssay‐Holzschuch — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Ignacio F. Bunster‐Ossa, Reconsidering Ian McHarg: The Future of Urban Ecology (Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, 2014).

Frederick Lutt — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Timothy R. White, Blue Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Michael Frisch — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia, Tactical Urbanism: Short‐Term Action for Long‐Term Change (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2015).

James Sasser — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Richard E. Ocejo, Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014).

Meagan Ehlenz — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Federico Caprotti, Eco‐Cities and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Efraim Ben‐Zadok — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Orlando Patterson (Ed., with Ethan Fosse), The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).

Alford A. Young — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

HughEllis and KateHenderson, Rebuilding Britain: Planning for a Better Future (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2014).

John Walls — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

REGIONAL OR PAROCHIAL? SUPPORT FOR CROSS‐COMMUNITY SHARING WITHIN CITY‐REGIONS

MICHAEL LEO OWENS, JANE LAWRENCE SUMNER — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

ABSTRACT

This article explores whether citizens of city-regions hold a particular attitude about collective action. We model individual support for the new regionalist idea that communities sharing the same city-region (i.e., metropolitan area) should share resources across them to solve regional problems. Using data from a random sample survey of adults living in 15 metropolitan areas in the state of Georgia in the United States, we use Bayesian analysis to determine the effects of a set of individual and contextual factors on the attitude. Conventional political cleavages of race, gender, and place of residence produce the strongest effects. We offer a set of theoretical, methodological, and practical implications for future research on political orientations of citizens in city-regions.

CITIZENSHIP IN THE FRAGMENTED METROPOLIS: AN INDIVIDUAL‐LEVEL ANALYSIS FROM SWITZERLAND

DANIEL KÜBLER — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

ABSTRACT

Based on a survey of 2010 citizens in four large metropolitan areas in Switzerland, the analysis presented in this article shows that spatial mobility of citizens across municipal borders leads to an upscaling of their territorial identities at the level of the city-region. On the one hand, this results in a favorable attitude towards encompassing institutions at the city-regional scale. On the other hand, given the high degree of institutional fragmentation prevailing in Swiss city-regions, strong city-regional orientations lead to a delegitimization of the local political system. Without adequate reforms of the territorial institutional framework, the ongoing growth and functional integration of city-regional spaces will lead to political alienation and increasingly challenge the democratic legitimacy of the local state in Switzerland. Beyond the Swiss case, the article shows that the long-running debate on metropolitan governance should focus, more thoroughly than in the past, on issues of citizenship and democratic legitimacy.

Heywood T. Sanders, Convention Center Follies: Politics, Power, and Public Investment in American Cities (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).

Mark S. Rosentraub — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Christopher D. Lloyd, Ian G. Shuttleworth, and David W. S. Wong (Eds.), Social‐Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes, and Outcomes (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2014).

Aaron J. Howell — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Sheryll Cashin, Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2014)

Cathy Wang — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Mark T. Mulder, Shades of White Flight: Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015)

Mary Rocco — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Carolyn T. Adams, From the Outside In: Suburban Elites, Third‐Sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014).

Myron A. Levine — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

G. Thomas Kingsley, Claudia J. Coulton, and Kathryn L. S. Pettit. Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2014).

Christopher Auffrey — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

Steven Conn, Americans Against the City: Anti‐Urbanism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014). Benjamin Ross, Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Julian C. Chambliss — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0800

Journal of Urban Affairs, EarlyView.

HOW METROPOLITAN CAN YOU GO? CITIZENSHIP IN POLISH CITY‐REGIONS

MARTA LACKOWSKA, ŁUKASZ MIKUŁA — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0800

ABSTRACT

This article deals with questions of metropolitan citizenship and political orientations in Polish city regions. The study is based on three case studies of the Gdańsk, Wrocław, and Poznań metropolitan areas. The description of their institutional arrangements and socioeconomic conditions is followed by an analysis of empirical data sets deriving from face-to-face surveys conducted with the inhabitants of core cities and suburban zones. The results are confronted with three main hypotheses regarding fragmentation and structure of the city-region, differences between citizens of core city and suburban areas, and individual-level variables (age, education, and so on). The main finding of the study is that city-regionalism understood as mobility, interest in supralocal public affairs, and autoidentification is relatively well developed in Polish regions, while public support for politico-administrative city-regionalism based on institutional solutions is less common.

SHARING FAIRLY? MOBILITY, CITIZENSHIP, AND GENDER RELATIONS IN TWO SWEDISH CITY‐REGIONS

CHRISTINE HUDSON — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0800

ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the centrality of women's mobility in relation to urban citizenship and how this is influenced by underlying gender relations. A theoretical framework is developed concerning mobility, citizenship, and the gender contract. Focusing on the Swedish situation, the relationship between gender, domestic work, and commuting is discussed. Drawing on theories concerning mobility and the concept of the gender contract and using the findings from a questionnaire survey, these issues are explored in two Swedish city-regions, Göteborg and Umeå. The focus is on whether, when both in a couple are in paid employment and commute, a more egalitarian gender contract develops where the unpaid domestic work is shared more equally. The study concludes that, irrespective of commuting, there continues to be a traditional gender contract in which, despite being in paid employment, the woman continues to be responsible for the brunt of the unpaid domestic labor, with the exception of tasks relating to childcare, where responsibility is more equally shared between both parents, reflecting a strong norm in Swedish society where fathers are also expected to be actively involved with their children.

BEING METROPOLITAN: THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL FACTORS ON SHAPING METROPOLITAN IDENTITY

JOAN‐JOSEP VALLBÉ, JAUME MAGRE, MARIONA TOMÀS — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0700

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While the single institution of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (MAB) is a recent creation, some form of institutional cooperation among most of the metropolitan municipalities has been functioning over the past 40 years. However, despite the ample evidence about municipal and national patterns of identification in Catalonia, no data about political orientations or patterns of identity toward the metropolitan area among the metropolitan population have been gathered so far. Using new survey data we explore two main features of metropolitan identification among the Barcelona metropolitan population. First, we analyze the relationship between place of residence and metropolitan identification. Second, we explore the shaping of the orientations of citizens regarding the governance structure of the MAB, with particular interest in the central role of the city of Barcelona. Results underscore the role of the core city and the effects of residential mobility in shaping both metropolitan identity and governance orientations.

TERRITORIAL POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS IN SWEDISH CITY‐REGIONS

ANDERS LIDSTRÖM — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

This article is concerned with local political orientations of citizens living in city-regions. Initially, a typology is developed in which three orientations are identified—metropolitan, intermunicipal, and municipal. This is followed by an empirical analysis of the occurrence of intermunicipal and municipal political orientations in two Swedish city-regions and how they vary. The analysis shows that the variation to a large extent can be explained by a combination of civic voluntarism, territorial identity, and city-regional integration. In addition, intermunicipal orientations turn out to be most common among suburban dwellers in large city-regions. The results of the study are significant for our understanding of citizenship in city-regions, as well as policy implications because they emphasize the need to develop democratic measures that make it possible for citizens to exert influence over collective matters in the city-region as a whole.

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