Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods

Introduction - W Dennis Keating Federal Policy and Poor Urban Neighborhoods - W Dennis Keating Atlanta - Larry Keating Peoplestown - Resilience and Tenacity versus Institutional Hostility Camden, New Jersey - Robert A Catlin Urban Decay and the Absence of Public-Private Partnerships Chicago - Robert Giloth Community Building on Chicago's West Side - North Lawndale 1960-1997 Cleveland - Norman Krumholz The Hough and Central Neighborhoods - Empowerment Zones and Other Urban Policies Detroit - Mittie O Chandler Staying the Course - Detroit's Struggle to Revitalize the Inner City East St Louis, Illinois - Kenneth Reardon Promoting Community Development through Empowerment Planning Los Angeles - Ali Modarres Borders to Poverty - Empowerment Zones and Spatial Politics of Development Miami - Dennis E Gale The Overtown Neighborhood - A Generation of Revitalization Strategies Gone Awry New York - Tom Angotti Challenges Facing Neighborhoods in Distress Future Prospects for Distressed Urban Neighborhoods - W Dennis Keating and Norman Krumholz

". . .a useful book, clearly written. . .accessible for students of urban studies and the practitioners who wish to know about the American efforts to deal with the problems of distressed neighborhoods." -- Ali Madanipour