The City, Revisited

"The City, Revisited is a major contribution to the history of thought on the three largest cities in the United States and a state-of-the-art appraisal of U.S. urban theory at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This remarkable volume not only provides much additional insight into the history and development of Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, the contributors both encapsulate and expand upon urban theories that will prove exceptionally useful to those interested in understanding patterns of development in other cities as well, both in the United States and around the world." -David Gladstone, University of New Orleans

Dennis R. Judd is professor of political science and senior scholar in the Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago. Dick Simpson is professor and head of the department of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Contents Part I. Revisiting Urban Theory 1. Theorizing the City Dennis R. Judd 2. Grounded Theory: Not Abstract Words but Tools of Analysis Janet Abu-Lughod 3. The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess: Same City, Different Visions Daphne Spain Part II. The View from Los Angeles 4. Urban Politics and the Los Angeles School of Urbanism Michael Dear and Nicholas Dahmann 5. The Sun Also Rises in the West Amy Bridges 6. From the Chicago to the L.A. School: Whither the Local State? Steven P. Erie and Scott A. MacKenzie Part III. The View from New York 7. The Rise and Decline of the L.A. and New York Schools David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge 8. School Is Out: The Case of New York City John Hull Mollenkopf 9. Radical Uniqueness and the Flight from Urban Theory Robert A. Beauregard Part IV. The View from Chicago 10. The New Chicago School of Urbanism and the New Daley Machine Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly 11. The New Chicago School: Notes Towards a Theory Terry Nichols Clark 12. The Mayor among His Peers: Interpreting Richard M. Daley Larry Bennett 13. Both Center and Periphery: Chicago's Metropolitan Expansion and the New Downtowns Costas Spirou Part V. The Utility of U.S. Urban Theory 14. The City and Its Politics: Informal and Contested Frank Gaffikin, David C. Perry, and Ratoola Kundu 15. Understanding Deep Urban Change: Patterns of Residential Segregation in Latin American Cities Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo 16. Studying Twenty-First Century Cities Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly Contributors Index