Introduction

Section One: How We Got Here

Forces Shaping Urban Poverty

William Julius Wilson

Fate of American Cities

Howard P. Chudacuff and Judith E. Smith

An Old Debate Still Germane and a Vital Connection Seldom Made

Levon Chorbajian

Construction of Consent

David Harvey

Section Two: Institutional Imbalance and Crime

War Against Drugs

Marc Mauer

Criminal Justice Through Fear

Mark Davis

Profiting from Prisons

Joel Dyer

Police and the Black Male1

Elijah Anderson

Section Three: Institutional Imbalance and

Spatial Arrangements

Promoting Segregation

Peter Dreier, John Molenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom

This is Detroit USA, Not Russia

Jeanie Wylie

Sports Stadiums, Good or Bad

George Lipsitz

Cheating Urban Farmlands in LA

Henrik Lebuhn

Solving Ghetto America

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton

Moving Out of Cabrini Green, Chicago

Deirdre Pfeiffer

Section Four: Institutions: Race, Class, and Education

Business Elites Re-claiming New York

Kim Moody 

The Middle-man in the City

Mary Patillo

Rights to the City and Katrina

Jay Arena

Special Taxes in Baltimore, Good or Bad

Meghan Ashlin Rich

Poverty: A discussion of Culture

William Julius Wilson

Section Five: Other Institutional Implications

The Media Bad-mouthing the City

Peter Dreier

Downing Mass Transit

Joe Feagin and Robert Parker

Environmental Dumping in Dallas/Houston

Robert Bullard

Unhealthy and Sick in LA

Jonathan Cohn

Afterword