This volume documents the continuing growth of concentrated poverty in central cities of the United States and examines what is known about its causes and effec

This volume documents the continuing growth of concentrated poverty in central cities of the United States and examines what is known about its causes and effec

Neighborhood-based initiatives -ranging from settlement houses in the nineteenth century to the Community Action and Model Cities program of the Great Society t

Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city only if it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit,

Despite the best hopes of the past half century, black urban pathologies persist in America. The inner cities remain concentrations of the uneducated, unemploye