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The Reference Shelf: The Transformation of American Cities

Table of Contents

Preface




Green Initiatives, the Environment, and Natural Resources




The Greening of American Cities




The Best Bike-Sharing Program in the United States, Tom Vanderbilt, Slate, January 7, 2013




Streetcorner Serenade for the Public Plaza, Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, May 31, 2013




Ten Urban Experiments That Your City Should Adopt, Sasha Abramsky, The Nation, March 4, 2015




New-Age Central Parks, Rutherford H. Platt and Peter Harnik, Planning, July 1, 2015




Aging Pipes Are Poisoning America's Tap Water, Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, July 29, 2015




Climate Change Crusade Goes Local, Doug Struck, Christian Science Monitor, August 9, 2015




Cost of Living and Changing Demographics




The Modern Urbanite




The End of the Suburbs, Leigh Gallagher, Time, July 31, 2013




Get Out of Town, Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, June 27, 2011




Baby Boomtowns: The U.S. Cities Attracting the Most Families, Joel Kotkin, Forbes, September 11, 2014




This Is the Most Economically Segregated City in America, Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress, February 24, 2015




Mini-D.C.'s: A Small-City Boom Revitalizes Downtowns Once Left for Dead, John Woodrow Cox, The Washington Post, October 31, 2014




How Suburban Are Big American Cities?, Jed Kolko, FiveThirtyEight, May 21, 2015




Foreclosures Fuel Detroit Blight, Cost City $500 Million, Christine MacDonald and Joel Kurth, The Detroit News, June 3, 2015




Economy and Industry




Jobs, Opportunity, and Innovation in Urban Environments




The Nation's Future Depends on Its Cities, Not on Washington, Michael Hirsh, National Journal, August 31, 2013




Can Tax Breaks for Big Corporations Turn Around One of America's Most Dangerous Cities?, Lidia DePillis, The Washington Post, December 15, 2014




How American Sports Franchises Are Selling Their Cities Short, David Uberti, The Guardian, September 22, 2014




Why Millennials Still Move to Cities, Kevin Maney, Newsweek, April 10, 2015




Why Are There So Many Shuttered Storefronts in the West Village?, Tim Wu, The New Yorker, May 24, 2015




Why American Cities Are Fighting to Attract Immigrants, Ted Hesson, The Atlantic, July 21, 2015




Crime and Policing




Law and Disorder




Inner-City Violence in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Heather Ann Thompson, The Atlantic, October 30, 2014




Two Architects of Broken Windows Policing Go On the Defensive, Eric Jaffe, Citylab, December 29, 2014




The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson, Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, August 14, 2014




City Life, Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, May 11, 2015




The Myth of Police Reform, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, April 15, 2015




Is a New Crime Wave on the Horizon?, Mariano Castillo, CNN.com, June 4, 2015




Architecture and the Arts




Urban Beauty, Functionality, and Culture




Why Public Art Is Important, Jared Green, The Dirt, October 15, 2012




Local Urban Culture Goes Global, Jeroen Beekmans, Pop-Up City, January 15, 2013




Pop-Up Salvation, renée e. hoogland, Art in America, December 1, 2013




Can Chicago Become America's Next Great City for Artists?, B. David Zarley, Citylab, February 15, 2013




Why Cities Can't Afford to Lose Their Artists, Richard Florida, Citylab, December 4, 2014




Cities Create Music, Cultural Festivals to Make Money, Chad Kaydo, Governing, January 2014




High Line Your Museum, Jonathan Massey, Art in America, May 1, 2015




New York City Rethinks Art for the Masses, Jennifer Smith, The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2015




Embracing Graffiti Could Help Contain It, Save Tucson Money, David J. Del Grande, Arizona Daily Star, August 1, 2015




Politics and Education




Managing the Future




In Major U.S. Cities Education “Reform” Opponents Take to the Streets, Amy Dean, The Nation, August 6, 2013




Charter Schools Continue Dramatic Growth Despite Controversies, Joy Resmovits, The Huffington Post, January 25, 2014




The Rise of the Progressive City, Michelle Goldberg, The Nation, April 2, 2014




The Revolt of the Cities, Harold Meyerson, American Prospect, April 23, 2014




The Gentrification Effect, Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times, February 25, 2015




These American Cities Are Fighting for Control over Electricity and the Internet, Max Holleran, openDemocracy, April 21, 2015




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