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Richardson Dilworth
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Professor at Drexel U and managing editor of Urban Affairs Review. Author of Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy and Reforming Philadelphia, 1682-2022.
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"Neighborhood Associations and Social Capital in Japan," by Pepijn van Houwelingen, UAR 48(4), 2012.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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🎧NEW on UAR Remixed! Listen to our interview with Gregg Colburn on his new co-authored book (w/ Rebecca Walter), “Affordable Housing in the United States."

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New Books: Affordable Housing in the United States by Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter — Urban Affairs Review
Listen to our conversation with Gregg Colburn, co-author with Rebecca Walter of Affordable Housing in the United States , published in 2024 by Routledge. Affordable Housing in the United States off...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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“If #zohran wins..."The Menace of Prosperity" — a tremendous urban history and storehouse of inspiring precedents and ideas — is going to be required reading in the coming years”-
@petedavis.bsky.social, founder of the @Democracy Policy Network

Order today.

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The Menace of Prosperity
Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents.   Many local policymakers mak...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day.

Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏

History.
October 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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For our debut post....🥁🥁🥁

Check out the latest episode of UAR Remixed, a companion podcast to @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social. Pt 3 of a 4-pt series on cities + migration, we spoke w/ Domenic Vitiello, Andrew Baldwin, + David Kaufmann on sanctuary cities

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The Politics and Experience of Sanctuary Cities — Urban Affairs Review
In this four-part miniseries, we spoke with six scholars whose research addresses different aspects, geographies, and approaches to analyzing and understanding the relationship between migration and...
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December 5, 2023 at 2:14 PM
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🎧 The finale of our second podcast miniseries on cities + migration is now LIVE! W/ excerpts from Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Deirdre Conlon, Nancy Hiemstra, David Kaufmann, + Andrew Baldwin. Link to show notes below, find + subscribe on your favorite platform!
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How Migration Makes a City — Urban Affairs Review
In this four-part miniseries, we spoke with six scholars whose research addresses different aspects, geographies, and approaches to analyzing and understanding the relationship between migration and...
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December 19, 2023 at 2:28 PM
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New year, new articles! Check out the latest by Simon van Zoest + Tom Daamen, "Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen"

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Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributio...
Value capture (VC) is widely cited as a method for local authorities to continue to provide urban public goods, such as public transport or measures to make neighborhoods more climate-resilient, in ...
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January 3, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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And a fascinating paper on place-based heritage, Black geographies, and multilevel governance theory from Eleonora Redaelli, John Arroyo, & Alexandra May Carson

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January 29, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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Karin Kitchens & Megan Goldberg take a closer look at school board politics in "Partisanship and Professionalization: School Board Decision-Making in the Midst of a Pandemic."
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January 29, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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It was a busy weekend for #onlinefirst at UAR - *3* exciting new articles published since Saturday 👇
January 29, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Issue 2 of our 60th anniversary volume is HERE! The editors revisit Michael Lipsky's classic 1971 "Street Level Bureaucracy." Visit our website to read more and view the full TOC 👇

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Volume 60, Issue 2 — Urban Affairs Review
Issue 2 of our anniversary volume features an introductory essay by managing editors Richardson Dilworth (Drexel University) and Mara Sidney (Rutgers University-Newark). We revisit Michael Lipsky’s “Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform” published in Urban Affairs Quarterly in 19
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February 8, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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March 11, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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NEW online first! By J. Cameron Anglum, Anita Manion, + Sapna Varkey, "Increasing Minimum Teacher's Salaries: Opportunities & Drawbacks across Geography and Race." Read the write-up on our website and find the full article below 👇
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Increasing Minimum Teacher Salaries: Opportunities and Drawbacks Across Geography and Race — Urban Affairs Review
One might be hard-pressed to turn on the evening news these days and avoid reports of some form of staffing shortage, a phenomenon which seems to cut across a myriad of professions ranging from bus ...
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March 11, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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🎺🎺🎺 NEW ISSUE!

Issue 3 of our 60th anniversary volume is now available, w/reflections from @timweaver.bsky.social + Christina Greer on Elinor Ostrom's (1983) "Social Stratification-Government Inequality Thesis"

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60.3 — Urban Affairs Review
Issue 3 of our anniversary volume features an introductory essay by managing editors Christina Greer (Fordham University) and Tim Weaver (University at Albany). We revisit Elinor Ostrom’s“The Social...
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April 2, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Finally, our entire back catalog of book reviews is now OPEN ACCESS! You can access a rotating list of featured reviews, curated by UAR editors, along with a link to the catalog on our website
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November 19, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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We successfully launched three separate podcast series for UAR Remixed since last summer! Our latest, produced by @templeunivpress.bsky.social, "Political Lessons from American Cities," is underway. You can find it wherever you listen to podcasts
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November 19, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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It's been a while since we posted! Here's a quick round-up of some of the work we've done @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social this year 👇
November 19, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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New article @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social by @bwitkovsky.bsky.social, "Cities and Their Neighbors," a highly topical analysis of the urban-rural divide in Wisconsin.

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Cities and Their Neighbors: Examining the Rural–Urban Divide on a Local Scale — Urban Affairs Review
Kenosha County, Wisconsin held the state's only contested race for District Attorney last year. The community's recent history of protest and violence resurfaced in the campaign as the Republican cand...
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February 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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@urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social welcomes authors who would like to participate in this open peer review system. Please drop us a note when you submit your paper if you're interested!
February 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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And finally, @alexkarner.bsky.social + Jonathan Shuster's response essay

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February 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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🎺🎺🎺 We're thrilled to announce that we just published its FIRST EVER open peer review on @alexkarner.bsky.social + Jonathan Shuster's "All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, & the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX," w/comments by @jen-nelles.bsky.social + Martin Horak.

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February 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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From @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social co-editor Christina Greer, this incisive op-ed in @nytopinion.nytimes.com published today:
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Opinion | Black Americans Are Not Surprised by What Trump’s Doing
Many Black Americans are not surprised by the way Trump is running roughshod over the rule of law, because they have seen it happen throughout American history.
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April 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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And "For an Urban Politics of Public Health" by Michael Brown
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May 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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And two excellent reviewer commentaries on the symposium, including "An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States" by @philiprocco.bsky.social

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An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States - Philip Rocco, 2025
Social scientists often treat places as containers for social and economic phenomena that shape health outcomes. Yet this analytic practice conceals more than i...
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May 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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🎺🎺🎺 NEW SYMPOSIUM on @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social from guest editor @charleywillison.bsky.social, "The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics + Public Health."

Intro here, follow the thread for more great scholarship 👇
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