SYLLABUS
Requirements | Grades | Readings | Web Sites | Class Schedule

What This Course is About
This is a seminar/discussion course about America's urban crisis -- and what we can do about it. It is also a course in policy analysis -- evaluating different public policies in terms of their effectiveness. It is also a course in American politics -- examining how political conflicts over ideas and interests influences policy regarding cities.

Following the civil disorder in Los Angeles in 1992, many politicians, candidates, journalists, business leaders, and philanthropists expressed growing concern about the "urban crisis." They held hearings, issued reports, wrote articles, and funded research about what caused it and what to do about it. Are other cities, like Los Angeles, ticking time bombs, waiting to explode? Are the problems facing American cities -- poverty, homelessness, high levels of infant mortality, pollution, etc. -- solvable?

There's been a great deal of research and writing about urban problems in the past few years. Most of the readings for this course draw on up-to-date research and thinking. But many of the urban problems we face today have been around for some time. People have been thinking about urban problems for many years. We can learn a great deal from the urban thinkers of the past as well.

The major questions addressed in this seminar include the following:

1. As the U.S. has changed, so has the shape, function, and number of cities and metropolitan areas. How have these changes come about? How and why did the suburbs grow, especially after World War 2? What's the difference between cities and suburbs? Are they growing more alike or more apart? How has the physical shape of metropolitan areas -- its architecture, roads, residential areas, open spaces, factories, stores, offices, neighborhoods, downtowns -- changed? What impact have these changes had on how people live their lives?



2. Are there certain "urban" characteristics -- economic, social, political, psychological -- common to all cities and metropolitan areas? What is meant by the term "urban crisis?" Does it affect all urban areas in the same way? How has the distribution of wealth and power in the larger society influenced the economic, social, and physical conditions of cities and metro areas? What are the causes of urban poverty and racial segregation?



3. Should there be a national urban policy designed to help rebuild cities? Or should there simply be policies to help individuals wherever they happen to live? What approaches have been tried? What works? What has failed? Why? How do we assess proposals to deal with our urban problems? We'll look at such issues as poverty and employment, housing and homelessness, public health, transportation and environment, racial segregation and discrimination, and others. What are the current policy debates regarding these and other issues?



4. What role do cities play in our national political life? (This is often called "the politics of urban policy"). How are cities governed? (This is often called "urban politics"). Who runs our cities? Business? Local politicians? Neighborhood groups? Developers? Unions? No one? What are the different ways that cities and metro areas are governed? What difference does it make?



5. Do cities in other countries have the same problems? Why or why not? Even if we find some common characteristics, we also know that L.A. has a quality about it that differs from Boston; that Paris is hardly the same as Nairobi; that Beijing is quite different from Mexico City; that San Diego is very different from San Francisco. How do we account for these differences? What can we learn from these differences to help address the problems facing American cities?

Course Requirements
Your grade will be based on the following:

1. One-third your grade will be based on your class participation. This is a seminar course. Its success depends on class discussions. Students are expected to do the readings on time and participate in class discussions. When doing the reading, think about the issues you want to discuss in class. Most of the readings are short articles from newspapers and magazines with little or no technical jargon. Some readings are more difficult and will take more time to digest. I encourage students to debate and disagree -- but to do so based on information and evidence as well as your own values.



2. One-third of your grade will be based on written assignments. You will be assigned a number of short (3 to 4 page) papers, based primarily on the readings. These include book reviews, policy analyses, newspaper editorials, and others. All papers should be typed, double-spaced. Proofread your papers. Check for correct spelling, punctuation, grammar. Put your names on the first page. Cite your sources in the essay (Author: Page Number) and in the bibliography (Author, Title, Publisher, Date). Examples or statistics should be used to illustrate your major points, not as a substitute for critical analysis. A few assignments will require you to work in groups.



3. One-third of your grade will be based on a policy memo. Each student will pick an issue facing America's cities and write a policy memo to a candidate running for mayor, governor, Congress, or President. The memo should address (a) the key trends and problems, (b) proposed policy solutions, making sure you identify which solutions are appropriate for the city, state, or federal government (depending on who is getting the memo) to address, (c) the political obstacles to getting these policies approved.
   
   The memo should be 10-15 pages long. It should not read like an academic term paper. Each section should have its major items written as short bullet points. Unlike a typical policy memo, however, it should have a bibliography page at the end. We will discuss the logistics of doing this paper in class. Each student should give me a short memo on Thursday, Feb. 7 identifying the issue selected and why. Each student should give me an outline of their policy memo, along with an annotated bibliography, on Thursday, March 28. The final paper is due on Thursday, May 2. Each student should use the websites listed below, as well as other sources, in doing the research for this assignment.

Required Readings

Books to Purchase

You should purchase the following paperback books, available at the college bookstore:

o Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom, Place Matters : Metropolitics for the 21st Century (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001)
Review (H-Urban: October, 2001) by Margaret Pugh O'Mara, Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania

o Pietro S. Nivola, Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, c1999)

o Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation & the Making of the Underclass (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993)

o Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985)

o Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (New York: Crown Pub., 1991)

o Norman Krumholz and Pierre Clavel, Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories (Philadelphia: Temple University Pres, 1994)
Review (H-Urban: December, 1994) by Nathan Landau, University of Califronaia at Berkeley.

Web Readings

Most of the readings for this source will be found on the website for UEP 301. You can get there by clicking on the following: http://www.oxy.edu/departments/library/reserve.html. The course readings to be found on the website are marked with an asterik (*). It is each student's responsibility to get these readings from the website. I would prefer that you download them so you can mark them up as well as bring them to class. There are many separate articles from magazines, newspapers, journals and other sources, so it may take time to download them each week. Make sure you have sufficient time to do this.

Reports and Journals

I will distribute free copies of several reports that are part of the required reading. These include a report on sprawl in Los Angeles ("Sprawl Hits the Wall"), a report on the income divide in Los Angeles ("A Tale of Two Cities"), and a report on community development corporations ("Corrective Capitalism"). I will also distribute six issues of the journal, Housing Policy Debate (listed as HPD), published by the Federal National Mortgage Association (called Fannie Mae). We will read selected articles from this journal.

Films

Although I like to show films as part of my courses, we probably won't have time to see more than one film this seminar. I would encourage you, however, to go to the Library and view some or all of the following films that are very relevant to the topics we'll discuss in the course.

"The Killing Floor" (feature film about the 1919 Chicago race riots)
"Hull House: The House that Jane Built" (documentary about the first wave of urban social reform at the turn of the 20th century)
"The Times of Harvey Milk" (documentary about the rise of gay politics in San Francisco)
"City of Hope" (a feature film, directed by John Sayles, about urban politics)
"Do The Right Thing" (Spike Lee's film about the Brooklyn ghetto)
"Holding Ground" (a documentary about community organizing in Boston)
"Taken for a Ride" (a documentary about America's love affair with the automobile)
"Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia" (a documentary about daily life in the LA suburbs)

Web Sites

I hope that all of you will become familiar with the World Wide Web as a way of connecting to the larger worlds of public policy. There are thousands of web sites that deal with social issues and thousands of advocacy organizations and political networks that have their own web sites. Here are several key sites with which you should be familiar. I encourage you to bookmark them so you can find them easily.

1. Electronic Policy Network (http://www.epn.org) -- This site is a link with dozens of organizations and publications that deal with public policy issues. It includes organizations such as the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Economic Policy Institute, Public/Private Ventures, The American Prospect magazine, Center for Law and Social Policy, and others. It includes links to issues such as economics and politics, welfare and families, education, civic participation, and health policy.



2. Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy (http:www/brookings.edu/urban). This is an outstanding research and policy center focusing on urban issues. The website is constantly being updated with new reports on a diversity of issues -- housing, transportation, welfare, banking, segregation, poverty, and other topics.



3. Community Organizing and Development (http://comm-org.utoledo.edu) -- This site is a link with hundreds of groups involved in urban community development. If you want to find out what groups are working on different urban issues, this is the site. It also has many articles and reports on urban community development and community organizing.



4. The Center for Neighborhood Technology (http://www.cnt.org),
   the National Housing Institute (www.nhi.org),
   the Metropolitan Initiative (http://www.cnt.org/mi/index.html),
   Planners Network (http://www.picced.org/resources/pn/pn.html),
   Civic Practices Network (http://www.cpn.org/index.html), and
   Citistates (http://www.citistates.com)
   All focus on innovative research and programs that strengthen urban neighborhoods and metropolitan areas. Each site has links to many other resources about particular issues, programs, cities, and metropolitan areas.



5. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has its own web site with information about its programs, policies, data bases, and many links. HUD's Office of Policy Development & Research (http://www.huduser.org) has its own site with a great deal of information about housing and urban problems, studies and publications, and available data. You reach can the HUD library, with many reports and publications about cities and housing problems, at this site.

Newspapers

Students are expected to read at least one daily newspaper -- the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal -- on a regular basis. You should draw on these newspapers in class discussions. When an article appears in one of these papers that relates to the topics in the course, bring it up in class.

Library Journals

(Readings preceded by an *asterisk are available on-line. Books are
available in the Bookstore. Reports and journals will be distributed in class).

SOCIAL VALUES, POLITICAL CHOICES, AND PUBLIC POLICY
(Thurs., Jan. 24)

"Looking for Housing" exercise

WHAT MAKES CITIES LIVEABLE? (Tues., Jan. 29 and Thurs., Jan. 31)

Social, Cultural and Environmental Factors (Jan. 29)

*Pierce, "A Universal Church of Immigrants" (Boston Globe, July 4, 1993)
*Shirley, "Ysleta Elementary School" from Dennis Shirley, Community Organizing for Urban School Reform (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997)
*Goldman, "A Hidden Advantage for Some Job Seekers" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 28, 1997)
*Kretzman, "Building Communities From the Inside Out" (Shelterforce, Sept./Oct. 1995)
*Butterfield, "Study Links Violence Rate to Cohesion of Community" (New York Times, Aug. 17, 1997)
*Willon, "As Inland Empire Grows, Freeway Commute Slows" (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 30, 2001)
*Polakovic, "Southland on Course to Reclaim US Smog Title" (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 26, 2001)
*Firestone, "Suburban Comforts Thwart Atlanta's Plans to Limit Sprawl" (New York Times, Nov. 21, 1999)
*Templin, "Caution: School Zone is a Bumper-to-Bumper Jam" (Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22, 1999)
*Dillon, "Mexico City Spawns Suburbs, Changing Face of Countryside" (New York Times, Dec. 18, 1999)
*Simons, "Amsterdam Plans Wide Limit on Cars" (New York Times, Jan. 28, 1993)
*Walljasper, "What Works? Denmark" (The Nation, January 26, 1998)
*Sigenbladh, "Stockholm" (Scientific American, September 1965)
*Wolfe, "Canada's Liveable Cities" (Social Policy, Summer 1992)

Economic and Political Factors (Jan. 31)

*Morgenthau and McCormick, "Are Cities Obsolete?" (Newsweek, Sept. 9, 1991)
*"Toronto and Detroit" (Economist, May 19, 1990)
*Kilborn, "Another Notch in the Decline of Main Street" (New York Times, November 4, 1993)\
*Walsh, "Urban Pain, From Sea to Sea" (New York Times, Sept 30, 2001)
*Greenhouse, "Why Paris Works" (New York Times Magazine, July 19, 1992)
*Ibrahim, "To French, Solidarity Outweighs Balanced Budget" (New York Times, Dec. 20, 1995)
*Tobar, "Housing Laws No Cure for Slums' Ills" (Los Angeles Times, July 20, 1997)
*Belluck, "New Wave of the Homeless Floods Cities' Shelters" (New York Times, Dec. 18, 2001)
*Callahan, "Ballot Blocks: What Gets the Poor to the Polls? (American Prospect, July/August 1998)
*Schudson, "What If Civic Life Didn't Die?" (American Prospect, March/April 1996)
*Vallely, "Couch-Potato Democracy?" (American Prospect, March/April 1996)
*Dogan and Kasarda, "Comparing Giant Cities" from Mattei Dogan and John D. Kasarda, The Metropolis Era: Mega-Cities, vol. 2 (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1988)
*Hall, "How Foreign Cities Cope" (The World & I, June 1991)

THE REALITIES OF URBAN AMERICA (Tues., Feb. 5 and Thurs., Feb. 7)

Affluence, Poverty, and Everyday Life (Tues., Feb. 5)

Kozol, Savage Inequalities (read the entire book for Feb. 5)

The Difficult Choices Facing America's Cities (Thurs., Feb. 7)

Downs, "The Challenge of Our Declining Big Cities" (Housing Policy Debate, 8/2, 1997)
*Wilson, "When Work Disappears" (New York Times Magazine, August 18, 1996)
*Johnson, Jones, Farrell, and Oliver, "The Los Angeles Rebellion: A Retrospective View" (Economic Development Quarterly, November 1992)
*Traub, "No-Fun City" (New York Times Magazine, Nov. 4, 2001)

The Magnitude of Inequality and Poverty (Tues., Feb.12)

Dreier, Mollenkopf, and Swanstrom, Place Matters (Preface; Chapters 1 and 2)
A Tale of Two Cities: Promise and Peril in Los Angeles (United Way of Greater Los Angeles, 1999)
*Bergmann, "Deciding Who's Poor" (Dollars & Sense, March/April 2000)
*Uchitelle, "How to Define Poverty?" (New York Times, May 26, 2001)
*Seelye, "Poverty Rates Fell in 2000, But Income Was Stagnant" (New York Times, Set. 26, 2001)
*Smeeding and Gottschalk, "Cross-National Income Inequality: How Great Is It and What Can We Learn From It?" (Focus, Summer/Fall 1998)
*Smeeding, Rainwater, and Burtless, "U.S. Poverty in Cross-National Perspective" (Focus, Spring 2001)
*Bernstein, "Inequality: How the Gap Between Rich and Poor Hurts the Economy" (Business Week, August 15, 1994)
*Wolff, "The Rich Get Richer...And Why the Poor Don't" (American Prospect, Feb. 12, 2001)
*Hershey, "The Cost of Not Living on a $5.15 Minimum" (New York Times, Sept. 19, 2000)
*Hillburg, "Living Costs Make More Poor in LA" (LA Daily News, July 24, 2001)
*Bernstein, "Poverty Rate is Persisting in New York Despite Boom" (New York Times, Oct. 7, 1999)
*International Comparisons of Child Poverty (Table)
*"2001 Poverty Guidelines" (chart)
*"Number of Poor and Poverty Rate: 1959-1999" (chart)
*"Share of Workers Earning Poverty-Level Wages, 1973-1999" (chart)
*"Share of Workers Earning Poverty-Level Wages, By Race/Ethnicity, 1973-2001" (chart)
*"Hourly and Weekly Earnings for Production and Non-Supervisory Workers, 1947-99" (table)
*"Minimum Wage and Average Hourly Wage" (table)
*"Annual Minimum Wage Earnings and the Poverty Level for a Family of Three" (chart)
*"Value of the Minimum Wage, 1960-2001" (table)

The Spatial Concentration of Wealth and Poverty (Thurs., Feb. 14)

Abramson, Tobin, and VanderGoot, "The Changing Geography of Metropolitan Opportunity: The Segregation of the Poor in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970 to 1990," (Housing Policy Debate, 6/1, 1995) -- skim the text, look closely at tables and figure out the basic points
Kasarda, "Inner-City Concentrated Poverty and Neighborhood Distress: 1970-1990" (Housing Policy Debate, 4/3, 1993)
*Roberts, "Gap Between Rich and Poor in New York Grows Wider" (New York Times, Dec. 26, 1994)
*Reich, "Secession of the Successful" (New York Times Magazine, Jan. 20, 1991)
*Traub, "What No School Can Do" (New York Times Magazine, January 17, 2000)

Consequences of Inequality and Poverty (Tues., Feb. 19)

Dreier, Mollenkopf and Swanstrom, Place Matters (Chapter 3)
*Nieves, "In Famously Tolerant City, Impatience with Homeless" (New York Times, Jan. 18, 2002)
*Marquis, "1 in 3 in L.A. Lacks Health Coverage, Study Says" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 18, 1998)
*Barboza, "Rampant Obesity, a Debilitating Reality for the Urban Poor" (New York Times, Dec. 26, 2000)
*Noble, "Study Shows a Big Asthma Risk for Children in Poor Neighborhoods" (New York Times, July 27, 1999)
*Polakovic, "Latinos, Poor Live Closer to Sources of Air Pollution" (Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2001)
*Sterngold, "5 Years After Los Angeles Riots, Inner City Still Cries Out for Jobs" (New York Times, April 28, 1997)
*Hamilton, "325 Dreams Shattered by Plant Closing" (Los Angeles Times, December 19, 1994)
*Weiser, "When the Plant Closes" (Washington Post, January 10, 1994)
*Kilborn, "An Illinois Tire Plant Closes and a Wave of Life Fades" (New York Times, Dec. 14, 2001)

RACISM AND SEGREGATION

Racial Prejudice and Institutional Racism (Thurs., Feb. 21)

*Kelley, "Statistics Lend support to Claims of Profiling" (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 23, 2001)
*Gilens, "Race and Poverty in America: Public Misperceptions and the American News Media" (Public Opinion Quarterly, Winter 1996)
*Brownstein and Simon, "Hospitality Turns into Hostility" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 14, 1993)
*Jones-Correa,"Immigrants in Cities" & "Immigrants as Minorities" in Michael Jones-Correa, ed., Governing American Cities: Interethnic Coalitions, Competitions, and Conflict (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001)
*Waldinger, "From Ellis Island to LAX: Immigrant Prospects in the.City" (International Migration Review, 1996)
*Shipler, "The White Niggers of Newark" (Harpers, August 1972)
*Nazario, "Hunger, High Food Costs Found in Inner-City Area" (Los Angeles Times, June 11, 1993)
*Turque, "Where the Food Isn't" (Newsweek, February 24, 1992)
*Squires, "The Indelible Color Line" (American Prospect, Jan./Feb. 1999)
*Kilborn, "Bias Worsens for Minorities Buying Homes" (New York Times, Sept. 16, 1999)
*Dedman, "Study Discerns Disadvantage for Blacks in Home Mortgages" (New York Times, Nov. 14, 1999)
*Hudson, "Going for Broke" (Washington Post, Jan. 10, 1993)
*Kristoff, "Borrowers Pay Price of Predatory Lending" (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 10, 2001)
*Pan, "Surveys Point to Racial Bias by Landlord" (Los Angeles Times, Aug. 22, 1993)
*Henriques, "New Front Opens in Effort to Fight Race Bias in Loans" (New York Times, Oct. 22, 2000)
*Nieves, "Blacks, Hit by Housing Costs, Leave San Francisco Behind" (New York Times, Aug. 2, 2001)
Turner, "Discrimination in Urban Housing Markets" (Housing Policy Debate, 3/2, 1992
Finkel and Kennedy, "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Utilization of Section 8 Existing Rental Vouchers and Certificates" (Housing Policy Debate, 3/2, 1992, pp. 463-467 only)

The Creation of the Ghetto (Tues., Feb. 26)

Massey and Denton, American Apartheid (entire book)

Is Residential Racial Integration Desirable or Possible? (Thurs, Feb. 28)

*Two Tables: "Public Opinion of Whites on School" and "Neighborhood Integration"
*Patterson, "The Paradox of Integration" (New Republic, November 6, 1995)
*Thernstrom and Thernstrom, "We Have Overcome: The Good News About Race Relations" (New Republic, Oct. 13, 1997)
*Glazer, "A Tale of Two Cities" (New Republic, August 2, 1993)
*Funderburg, "Loving Thy Neighborhood" (The Nation, Dec. 14, 1998)
*Massey and Fischer, "Where We Live, In Black and White" (The Nation, Dec. 14, 1998)
*Ramos, "Latino Middle Class Growing in Suburbia" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 30, 1997)
*Wilkerson, "One City's 30-Year Crusade for Integration" (New York Times, Dec. 30, 1991)
*Scott, "Rethinking Segregation Beyond Black and White" (New York Times, July 29, 2001)
Nyden, Maly and Lukehart, "The Emergence of Stable Racially and Ethnically Diverse Urban Communities: Case Study of Nine U.S. Cities" (Housing Policy Debate, 8/2, 1997)
Turner, "Introduction: Achieving a New Urban Diversity: What Have We Learned" (Housing Policy Debate, 8/2, 1997)

SUBURBANIZATION, SPRAWL, AND METROPOLITAN FRAGMENTATION

History and Reality of Suburbanization, Sprawl and Fragmentation (Tues., March 5)

Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier (Intro, Chapters 2, 6-11)
Michael Dear, Heidi Sommer, et. al., Sprawl Hits the Wall: Confronting the Realities of Metropolitan Los Angeles, vol. 4 of Atlas of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif : Southern California Studies Center, University of Southern California, 1996)
*"Flee the City" (Cartoon)
*Kelley, "As Suburbs Change, They Still Satisfy" (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 19, 1999)
*Gold, "Paying Price of Growth in Inland Empire" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 25, 2001)
*Halper, "CDC Study on Suburban Life Hits a Nerve" (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 7, 2002)
*Chawkins, "Homes Sprouting, Farms Dying" (Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1999)
*Sanchez, "LA County's Growth Spurt Pushes North" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 23, 1999)
*Cart, "Rapidly Growing Phoenix Finds Dust Unsettling" (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 7, 1999)
*Fulton and Shifley, "Operation Desert Sprawl" (Governing, August 1999)
*Arax, "Putting the Brakes on Growth" (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 6, 1999)
*Pedersen, Smith and Adler, "Sprawling..." (Newsweek, July 19, 1999)
*Conte, "Sudden City" (Governing, Nov. 2001)
*"Let Them Drive Cars" (New Republic, March 20, 2000)
*Easterbrook, "The Suburban Myth: The Case for Sprawl" (New Republic, March 15, 1999)
*Sheehan, "What Will It Take to Halt Sprawl?" (WorldWatch, Jan/Feb 2002)

The Economic Costs of Sprawl and Fragmentation (Thurs., March 7)

*Minerbrook, "Why a City Alone Cannot Save Itself" (U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 9, 1992)
*Glionna, "Oakland's In-Your-Face Ads Invade San Francisco" (Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2001)
*Fulton, "Welcome to Sales Tax Canyon" from William Fulton, The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles (Point Arena, CA: Solano press Books, 1997) Review
(H-Urban: January, 1998) by Don Parson, Independent Scholar
*Curtiss and Watson, "Desperate Cities Court Developers" (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 16, 1993)
*Stewart, "Burbank May Woo Company with $250,000 Incentive" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 9, 1993)
*"San Marino: The Affluent Grapple with Low-Income Housing" (Los Angeles Times, June 14, 1993)
*Tempest, "In Marin County Plenty, a Poverty of Service Workers" (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 25, 1999)
*Davis, "The Suburban Nightmare" (Los Angeles Times, October 23, 1994)
*Glastris, "A Tale of Two Suburbias" (U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 9, 1992)
*DeWitt, "Older Suburbs Struggle..." (New York Times, Feb. 26, 1995)
*Selvin, "The View From the European Bus" (Los Angeles Times, Aug. 15, 1999)
*Gross, "Getting There the Hard Way, Every Day" (Los Angeles Times, July 16, 1995)
*Mason, "The Buses Don't Stop Here Anymore" (American Prospect, March/April 1998)

Dreier, Mollenkopf, and Swanstrom, Place Matters (Chapter 4)
Nivola, Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America
*Mohl, "The Industrial City" (Environment, June 1976)
*Wright, "Public Housing for the Worthy Poor" from Gwendolyn Wright, Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981)
*Egan, "The Freeway, Its Cost, and 2 Cities' Destinies" (New York Times, July 14, 1999)
*Halstead and Lind, "The National Debate Over School Funding Needs a Federal Focus" (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 8, 2000)

Urban Power Structures and the Dilemma of Capital Mobility (Thurs., March 14)

Dreier, Mollenkopf and Swanstrom, Place Matters (Chapter 5)
*Reich, "The Bridgestone Tire Controversy" from Robert B. Reich, Locked in the Cabinet (New York: Knopf, 1997)
*Bluestone and Harrison, "Boomtown and Bust-town" from Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America: plant closings, community abandonment, and the dismantling of basic industry (New York: Basic Books, 1982)
*Zaretsky, "Should Cities Pay for Sports Facilities?" (The Regional Economist [published by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis], April 2001)
*Rosentraub, "Testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the Stadium Financing and Franchise Relocation Act of 1999," June 15, 1999.
*Domhoff, "The Corporate Community and Growth Coalitions" from G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America?: Power and Politics in the Year 2000 (Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Pub. Co., 1998)
*Swanstrom, "The Politics of Default" from Todd Swanstrom, The Crisis of Growth Politics (Philadelphia: Temple Unversity Press, 1985)
*Dreier, "The Vault Comes Out of the Shadows" (Boston Business Journal, Oct. 10, 1983)
*Dreier, "Rent-a-Politician Exposed" (Shelterforce, 1981)

MARCH 26 -- JONATHAN KOZOL, AUTHOR OF Savage Inequalities: children in America's schools (New York: HarperPerennial, [1992], 1991), WILL BE SPEAKING ON CAMPUS AT 11:30 A.M.. STUDENTS IN UEP 301 SHOULD ATTEND THIS TALK.

Liberal and Conservative Urban Regimes (Tues., March 26)

*Peterson, "Introduction" from George E. Peterson, ed., Big City Politics, Governance, and Fiscal Constraints (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1994)
*Kolker, "Dallas Mayor Gets Credit for Dispersing City's Cloud of Hate" (Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1999)
*"Atlanta's Mayor Defies Threat to End Affirmative Action" (New York Times, July 16, 1999)
*Munoz, "Mexican Americans and the Promise of Democracy: San Antonio Mayoral Elections" (from Peterson, ed., Big-City Politics, Governance, and Fiscal Constraints, 1994)
*LaGanga, "Oakland Mayor...Jerry Brown" (Los Angeles Times Magazine, Nov. 4, 2001)
*Gurwitt, "Black, White and Blurred" (Governing, Sept. 2001)
*Brownstein, "Latinos Stir Tension in New Brand of Urban Politics" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26, 2001)
*Shryer and Lacey, "Riordan Studies Privatization in Indianapolis" (Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1993)
*Ridley-Thomas/Poole, "Privatization of City Services" (Metro Investment Report, Dec. 1994)
*Goldsmith, "Competing for Better Government" (New York Times, Dec. 7, 2001)
*Grunwald, "The Myth of the Supermayor" (American Prospect, Sept/Oct. 1998)
*Clairborne, "From Champion to Chief Critic of the Homeless" (Washington Post, Dec. 9, 1997)
*Mitchell, "Giuliani Administration Seeking Sharper Cuts in Health and Welfare Programs for the Poor" (New York Times, Dec. 16, 1994)
*Finder, "New Yorkers Feel Squeezed by Cuts in City's Budget" (New York Times, Nov. 3, 1995)
*Harcourt, "The Broken Windows Myth" (New York Times, Sept. 11, 2001)
*Steinhauer, "New Mayor, New Focus" (New York Times, Jan. 17, 2002)

Progressive Urban Regimes (Thurs., March 28)

Krumholz and Clavel, Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories (select and read four chapters)
*Dreier, "Urban Politics and Progressive Housing Policy: Ray Flynn and Boston's Neighborhood Agenda" from W. Dennis Keating, Norman Krumholz, and Philip Star, eds., Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996)
*Mier and Moe, "Decentralized Development: From Theory to Practice" from Pierre Clavel and Wim Wiewel, eds., Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods: progressive city government in Chicago, 1983-1987 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991)
*Wimpey, "The Housing Agenda that Led to Victory" (Shelterforce, March/April 1992)
*Dreier and Pitcoff, "I'm a Tenant and I Vote: New Yorkers Find Victory in Rent Struggle" (Shelterforce, July/August 1997)
*Uchitelle, "Minimum Wages: City by City" (New York Times, Nov. 19, 1999)
*Pollin, "Living Wage, Live Action" (The Nation, Nov. 23, 1998)
*Fine, "Building Community Unions" (The Nation, January 1, 2001)
*Nichols, "Success in Santa Fe" (Shelterforce, March/April 1996)
*Rath, "Grassroots: The Next Generation: BUILD and the Groups It's Inspired Remake Baltimore Politics from the Ground Up" (City Paper, June 15, 1999)
*Dreyfus, "The Turnout Imperative" (American Prospect, July/August 1998)

Los Angeles: Conservative, Liberal, or Progressive? (Tues, April 2)

*Byran O. Jackson and Michael B. Preston, "Race and Ethnicity in Los Angeles Politics," from George E. Peterson, ed., Big City Politics, Governance, and Fiscal Constraints (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1994)
*Meyerson, "Why Liberalism Fled the City...And How It Might Come Back" (American Prospect, March/April 1998)
*Lee, "One of Their Own: Business Mostly Happy with Riordan Win" (Los Angeles Times, June 10, 1993)
*Newton, "LA's Inner Circle is Mostly Rich, Enormously Powerful" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 28, 1999)
*Rainey and Lacey, "Riordan's Budget Spares only LAPD" (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 16, 1993)
*Baker, "How Many Will Die in County Cutbacks?" (Los Angeles Times, July 16, 1993)
*Lopez and Hernandez, "Safety Net Stretched to the Limit" (Los Angeles Times, May 5, 1993)
*Cone, "Wilson, Riordan Criticize EPA's Delay on Smog Rules" (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 14, 1995)
*Sims, "Corporate Vows to Aid Poor Produce Little in LA" (New York Times, April 19, 1993)
*Smith, "The Best Intentions: Why Rebuild LA Didn't" (LA Weekly, April 27, 1997)
*Newton, "Recovery Does Little to Help L.A. Homeless" (Los Angeles Times, May 19, 1997)
*Merl, "Living Wage Plan Faces First Test in Council" (Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1997)
*Cleeland, "Lives Get a Little Better on a Living Wage" (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7, 1999)
*Rohrlich, "Union's Fight with Hotel Reverberates Across LA" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 5, 1997)
*Hong, "Riding Momentum" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 31, 1996)
*Friedman and Meyerson, "What's Riordan Done for LA: Plenty or Precious Little?" (Los Angeles Times, July 1,2001)
*Newton, "Would-Be LA Mayors Do the Math for 2001" (Los Angeles Times, Aug. 23, 1999)
*Candaele and Dreier, "LA's Progressive Mosaic" (The Nation, August 21/28, 2000)
*Goodno, "A New LA" (Urban Ecology, Autumn 2001)
*Meyerson, "A City Hesitates at Political Change" (New York Times, June 8, 2001)
*Gold, "Hahn Hopes Tax Break Will Bring Small Business to LA" (Los Angeles Times, August 1, 2000)
*Stewart, "Hahn Plans Trust Fund for Affordable Housing" (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 17, 2002)

Is Regionalism the Solution? (Thurs., April 4)

Dreier, Mollenkopf, and Swanstrom, Place Matters (Chapter 6)
*Purdum, "Suburban Sprawl Takes Its Place on the Political Landscape" (New York Times, February 6, 1999)
*Orfield, "Metropolitics: Coalitions for Regional Reform" (Brookings Review, Winter 1997)
*Smothers, "City [Memphis] Seeks to Grow By Disappearing" (New York Times, Oct. 18, 1993)
*Rabinovitz, "Hard-Line Approach or Means for Survival?" (New York Times, March 25, 1996)
*"Two Views of the Commuter's Curse: Pataki (`Isn't It Obvious') and Fuchs (`The City Already Pays More than Its Fair Share')" (New York Times, May 22, 1998)
*"Handling Growth as a Region" (Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1998)
*Cone, "Southland Smog Levels Are Lowest in 4 Decades" (Los Angeles Times, October 21, 1995)
*Gurwitt, "The Quest for Common Ground" (Governing, June 1998)
*Gurwitt, "The State vs. Sprawl" (Governing, January 1999)
*Ehrenhalt, "The Czar of Gridlock" (Governing, May 1999)
*Staley, "The Crusade Against Sprawl will Drive Up the Cost of Housing" (Commonwealth, Summer 1999)
*Wilkie, "Limiting Sprawl Will Make Towns and Cities More Livable" (Commonwealth, Summer 1999)
*"Ehrenhalt, "The Great Wall of Portland" (Governing, May 1997)
Abbott, "The Portland Region" and comments by Richmond and Fischel (Housing Policy Debate, 8/1, 1997)

Urban Renewal Strategies: Rebuilding Downtowns (Tues. April 9)

Teaford, "Urban Renewal and Its Aftermath" (Housing Policy Debate, 11/2, 2000)
*Hines, "Housing, Baseball, and Creeping Socialism: The Battle of Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles" (Journal of Urban History, February 1982)
*Clines, "In Pittsburgh, a Redevelopment Too Far?" (New York Times, May 2, 2000)
*Davis, "Fortress LA" from Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Escavating the Guture in Los Angeles (New York: Vintage Books, 1992)
*Tabak, "Wild About Convention Centers" (Atlantic Monthly, April 1994)
*Applebome, "An Olympic Renewal? Atlanta's Big Question" (New York Times, October 9, 1994)
*Hayden, "A New Spin: `Rebuild LA' From the Top" (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 5, 1999)
*Rivera, "Staples Center's Displaced Have New Homes and New Worries" (Los Angeles Times, Oct. 9, 1999)
*Newton and Simers, "NFL Talks at Impasse Over Use of Public Funds" (Los Angeles Times, Aug. 3, 1999)
*Schwartz and Barrett, "Can You Top This?" (Newsweek, Feb. 17, 1992)
*Schoenberger "Bringing the Life Back to City's Heart" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 1993)
*Lueck, "Giuliani Plans Inducements to Help Lower Manhattan" (New York Times, Dec. 16, 1994)

Community Development Strategies: Bringing Private Investment and Jobs to the Ghetto (Thurs., April 11)

Peirce and Steinbach, Corrective Capitalism: The Rise of America's Community Development Corporations (Ford Foundation report, 1987)
*Halpern, "Introduction" (pp. 1-18) and "Community Economic Development," (pp. 127-148)  from Robert Halpern, Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States (New York: Columbia Unviersity Press, 1995)
*Howard, "Big Retailers Bet Big on the Inner City" (Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2000)
*Goozner, "The Porter Prescription" (American Prospect, May/June 1998)
*Fulton and Newman, "The Strange Career of Enterprise Zones" (Governing, March 1994)
*Newfield, "Redline Fever" (Village Voice, 1978)
*Wayne, "New Hope in Inner Cities: Banks Offering Mortgages" (New York Times, March 14, 1992)
*Oppel, "Many Banks Making Money on Lending in Poor Areas" (New York Times, Oct. 22, 1999)
*Pasternack, "Chicago's Shorebank Earns Interest as Model for Rebirth" (Los Angeles Times, Feb 22, 1993)
*White, "Ralphs to Build 4 Supermarkets in Poorer Areas" (Los Angeles Times, June 11, 1993)
*Martin, "A Haven for Vendors" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 22, 1999)
*Kretzman, "Building Communities From the Inside Out" (Shelterforce, Sept./Oct. 1995)
*Cnaan, "Our Hidden Safety Net: Social and Community Work by Urban American Religious Congregations" (Brookings Review, Spring 1999)
*Walljasper, "When Activists Win: The Renaissance of Dudley Street" (The Nation, March 3, 1997)
*Belluck, "Blighted Areas Are Revived as Crime Rate Falls in Cities" (New York Times, May 29, 2000)
*Stanfield, "City Slickers" (The National Journal, July 19, 1997)
*Feldman, "Harvest of Hope" (Los Angeles Times, August 19, 1993)
*Martin, "City Seeks to Put Mini-Parks in Urban Pockets" (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 8, 1999)

Mobility Strategies: Escaping Inner City Neighborhoods (Tuesday, April 16)

Hughes, "A Mobility Strategy for Improving Opportunity" (Housing Policy Debate, 6, 1, 1995)
Turner, "Moving Out of Poverty" (Housing Policy Debate, 9/2, 1998)
Briggs, "Brown Kids in White Suburbs" (Housing Policy Debate, 9/1, 2000)
Rosenbaum, "Changing the Geography of Opportunity By Expanding Residential Choice" (Housing Policy Debate, 6/1, 1995)
*DeParle, "An Underground Railroad From Projects to Suburbs" (New York Times, December 1, 1993)
*Stanfield, "The Reverse Commute" (The National Journal , Nov. 23, 1996)
*Wartzman, "New Bus Lines Link the Inner-City Poor with Jobs in Suburbia" (Wall Street Journal, Sept. 24, 1993)
*"Who Rides the Bus?" (Los Angeles Times, October 1994)
*Dreier and Moberg, "Moving From the 'Hood: The Mixed Success of Integrating Suburbia" (American Prospect, Winter 1996)
*Rockwell, "The Ghost of Gautreaux" (The National Review, March 7, 1994)
*Waldrom, "Parading Politicians Hear Critics of Housing Program" (Baltimore Sun, September 12, 1994)
*Diesenhouse, "A Suburb Welcomes Subsidy Housing," (New York Times, May 1, 1994)

Welfare and Job Training Strategies (Thursday, April 18)

*"Historical Trends in AFDC Enrollments and Average Payments, 1970-1996" (table)
*"Maximum AFDC/TANF Benefits by Family Size, Januarh 1997" (table)
*"Need Standard and Maximum AFDC/TANF and Food Stamp Benefits, One-Parent Family
of Three Persons, January 1997" (table)
*Nazario, "USDA Tries to Serve Up Food Stamps to the Hungry" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 22, 1994)
*deMause, "Turning the Tables: Welfare Reform Faces a Time Limit of Its Own" (In These Times, June 12, 2000)
*Katz and Allen, "Cities Matter: Shifting the Focus of Welfare Reform" (Brookings Review, Summer 2001)
*Bernstein, "As Welfare Deadline Looms, Answers Don't Seem So Easy" (New York Times, June 25, 2001)
*DeParle, "A Mass of Newly Laid-Off Workers Will Put Social Safety Net to the Test" (New York Times, Oct. 8, 2001)
*"5 Years After Welfare Reform, Success Stuns Even Critics" (USA Today editorial, August 20, 2001
*Rodgers, "Target Poverty, Not Welfare" (USA Today, August 20, 2001)
*Burke, "Ending Welfare, Continuing Poverty" (Dissent, Fall 2001)
*Leonhard, "Out of Work, and Out of the Benefits Loop" (New York Times, Oct. 17, 2001)
*Hernandez and Bernstein, "After Steady Declines, Welfare Rolls in New York City Are On the Rise Again"(New York Times, Jan. 17, 2002)
*Feldman, "Ready, Willing, Unable" (Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1993)
*Rothstein, "Employers, Not Schools, Fail Black Youth" (Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1993)
*Stanfield, "Just Connect" (The National Journal, May 31, 1997)
*Walljasper, "A Quest for Jobs in San Antonio" (The Nation, July 21, 1997)
*Romney, "Jobs Program a Model of Success" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 12, 2001)

When Work Reappears: Job Creation and Labor M arket Strategies (Tuesday, April 23)

*Taub, "What If Anyone Had a Job?" (Shelterforce, Sept./Oct. 1996)
*Bennet, "Mere Hint of Jobs Draws Crowd in Detroit" (New York Times, Nov. 12, 1993)
*Uchitelle, "Jobless Rate Drops to 4.1% As Wages Rise By 1c an Hour" (New York Times, Nov. 6, 1999)
*"Real Value of the Minimum Wage, 1960-1997" (chart and table)
*Mencimer, "Take a Hike: Minimum Wage & Welfare Reform" (New Republic, May 23, 1994)
*Boxer, "Increase the National Minimum Wage..." (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 16, 1999)
*Thompson, "...But One Size Doesn't Fit All Workers" (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 16, 1999)
*Dreier, "LA Workers Miss a Tax Break" (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 34, 1999)
*Dreier and Rothstein, "Seismic Stimulus: The California Quake's Creative Destruction" (American Prospect, Summer 1994)
*Anderson & Dreier, "How the Pentagon Redlines America's Cities" (Planners Network, May 25, 1993)
*Moberg, "Conversion Inexperience" (In These Times, December 26, 1994)
*Miller, "The American Infrastructure" (Industry Week, May 21, 1990)
*Murray, "New Deal's WPA and CCC Enjoy Renewed Vogue" (Wall Street Journal, June 1, 1992)
*Wildavsky, "Pigging Out" (The National Journal, April 19, 1997)

The Debate Over Housing Policy: Is There a Housing Crisis? What Should Be Done? (Thurs., April 25)

Hirsch, "Searching for a `Sound Negro Policy,'" (Housing Policy Debate, 11/2, 2000).
*Nieves, "Homeless Defy Cities Drives to Move Them," (New York Times, December 7, 1999)
*McDonnell, "Struggling to Pick Up the Pieces" (Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2000)
*Ramos, "A Bitter Year for Victims of Collapse" (Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2001)
*Fears, "Angry Tenants Protest Lack of Enforcement of Slum Laws" (Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1999)
*Stewart, "Crackdown on Unsafe Housing Has Downside for Many Tenants" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 19, 2001)
*Renwick, "Fed-Up Tenants Take Over" (Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1994)
*Besser, "Gentrifying the Ghetto" (Progressive, January 1979)
*Rivera, "The Growing Numbers and Problems of Women on Skid Row" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 15, 2001)
*Husock, "We Don't Need Subsidized Housing" (City Journal, Winter 1997)
*Venkatesh, "An Invisible Community: Inside Chicago's Public Housing" (American Prospect, Sept./Oct. 1997)
*DeParle, "In Booming Economy, Poor Still Struggle to Pay the Rent" (New York Times, June 16, 1998)
*Cleeland, "Rents Are Rising in L.A.'s Blue-Collar Neighborhoods" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 24, 1998)
*Stewart, "LA Becoming a City of Renters" (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 29, 2001)
*Wedner, "Housing Less Affordable as Rent-Wage Gap Widens" (Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2001)
*Hale, "Activists Protest Projects' Lack of Low-Income Units" (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 18, 2001)
*Salins, "Toward a Permanent Housing Problem," (The Public Interest, Fall 1986)
*Dreier and Atlas, "Housing Policy's Moment of Truth" (American Prospect, Summer 1995)

New Urban Policies for a New Century (Tuesday, April 30)

Dreier, Mollenkopf, and Swanstrom, Place Matters (Chapter 7)
*Brownstein, "Assault on Clinton's Urban Agenda..." (Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1995)
*Stanfield, "Splitsville" (The National Journal, May 3, 1997)
*Kriz, "The Politics of Sprawl" (The National Journal, Feb. 6, 1999)
*DeParle and Holmes, "A War on Poverty Subtly Linked to Race" (New York Times, Dec. 26, 2000)

Putting Cities Back on the Nation's Political Agenda (Thursday, May 2)

Dreier, Mollenkopf, and Swanstrom, Place Matters (Chapter 8)
*Stout, "Republicans Remain Hostile to Proposal for Census Sampling" (New York Times, May 12, 1997)
*Germond and Witcover, "Mayors Find Their Clout Has Shrunk" (The National Journal, June 26, 1993)
*Tolchin, "Mayors Press Clinton on Promise to Rebuild Nation" (New York Times, Jan. 25, 1993)
*Schneider, "The Suburban Century Begins" (Atlantic, July 1992)
*Paget, "Can Cities Escape Political Isolation?" (The American Prospect, Jan/Feb 1998)
*Weir, "In the Shadows: Central Cities' Loss of Power in State Politics" (Brookings Review, Spring 1995)