This article is an expanded version of the 2008 American Educational Research
Association's Presidential Address. The purpose of the article is to describe the geography …

Around the same time that Richard J. Daley governed Chicago, greasing the wheels of his
notorious political machine during a tenure that lasted from 1955 to his death in 1976 …

The study of urban regimes is an evolving activity and not a tightly defined form of analysis.
With ongoing research new questions and issues arise, and old ones stand in need of …

Following decades of neglect and decline, many US cities have undergone a dramatic
renaissance. From New York to Nashville and Pittsburgh to Portland governments have …

Drawing on notions of the symbolic economy and urban imaginary as an inherent dimension
of the neoliberal public sphere, this paper examines historicized city plans and their visions …

I study the effect of transit access on neighborhood incomes by exploiting a quasi-
experimental setting of an extensively planned, but only partially built urban rail system in …

The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But
the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the …

This article examines the scope of existing economic development activity and the
motivations and perceptions of practitioners to shed light on the barriers to sustainable …

Our concern in this article is corporate civic elite organizations and their role in social
production and urban policy in the United States. Recent urban literature has suggested that …

Uneven subnational energy policy and regulatory geographies in the United States are a
widely recognised reality, resulting from the absence of a concerted federal effort towards …