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Urban Affairs Review Volume 44 Issue 5

Subject Areas: Sociology and Political Science;
Publisher: SAGE Publications - SAGE
ISSN: 1078-0874
SJR: 76

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In Memoriam

Pagano, Michael A.

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087409334245
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Mad Cows, Regional Governance, and Urban Sprawl

Ghitter, Geoff; Smart, Alan

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087408325257

History matters. Inspired by evolutionary approaches in economics and, more recently, economic geography, the authors present, through the lens of a slaughterhouse development on the city's fringe, a historical model of urban development in the metropolitan region of Calgary, Canada. Their...
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Race, Retrospective Voting, and Disasters

Lay, J. Celeste

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087408326900

The 2006 New Orleans mayoral election provides a unique opportunity to examine the influence of a natural disaster on voting behavior. Theories of retrospective voting presume that voters will punish incumbents whose performance they deem unacceptable. To many Americans, Ray Nagin had done a poor...
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Mobilization on the Waterfront

McGovern, Stephen J.

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087408323943

This article examines the roots of regime dissolution and reconstruction through a case study of waterfront development in Philadelphia. The impetus for political change has been the progressive ideas, values, beliefs, and practices of a grassroots movement composed of middle-class residents and...
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Look Back in Anger?

Cohen-Marks, Mara; Nuño, Stephen A.; Sanchez, Gabriel R.

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087407311771

In the spring of 2006, an unprecedented mobilization of undocumented immigrants and their advocates sent shockwaves across the U.S. political landscape. Whether the demonstrations did more to advance the interests of undocumented residents and other immigrants or to harden nativist sentiments...
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Latino Mobilization in New Immigrant Destinations

Benjamin-Alvarado, Jonathan; DeSipio, Louis; Montoya, Celeste

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087408323380

We use the 2006 immigrant-rights protests as a point of departure to test whether political opportunity structures aligned to spur widespread immigrant mobilization in new immigrant destinations. The existing immigrant mobilization scholarship would predict the absence of protest in areas of new...
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Mobilization, Participation, and Solidaridad

Barreto, Matt A.; Manzano, Sylvia; Ramírez, Ricardo; Rim, Kathy

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087409332925

This article tests multiple hypotheses regarding participation in the 2006 immigration rallies in American cities. Specifically, the authors test whether the movement was widespread among Latinos or limited to Mexican immigrants, as speculated by the media, or whether group solidarity can be...
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Book Review: Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City, by Howard Gillette, Jr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 320 pp, $39.95 (cloth), $22.50 (paper)

Ferman, Barbara

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087408315535
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Book Review: Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities, by Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. LeFurgy. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2007. 212 pp., $26.95 (hardcover)

Gainsborough, Juliet

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087408315533
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Book Review: The Education Mayor: Improving America's Schools, by Kenneth K. Wong, Francis X. Shen, Dorothea Anagnostopolous, and Stacey Rutledge. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. 233 pp. $26.95 (paper)

Henig, Jeffrey R.

2009 Urban Affairs Review

doi:10.1177/1078087408316640

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