Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America

Acknowledgments

A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America is the ninth volume in the University of Pennsylvania Press’s The City in the Twenty-First Century book series, organized through the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR). Many of the ideas here were first aired at the symposium on the economic challenges facing older communities hosted biennially by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. On March 26–28, 2008, ‘‘Reinventing Older Communities: How Does Place Matter’’ brought together leaders from the private sector, mayors from the United States and several other countries, policy experts and academics . Penn IUR was pleased to bring together academics, policymakers and practitioners and to foster their interaction in the symposium’s research track. The research that this volume represents would not have been possible without the support of the Federal Reserve, its President and CEO, Charles Plosser, its Executive Vice President, Rick Lang, its Vice President and Community Affairs Officer, Dede Myers, and the efforts of all those who participated in the symposium. Penn IUR is indebted to the continued support of its Advisory Board, the President’s Office, and the Provost’s Office at the University of Pennsylvania . Their commitment to developing and disseminating the forms of knowledge necessary for sound urban policy and revitalized cities makes publications like this one possible. The editors of the volume are grateful to the authors, whose rigor and intelligence this book showcases ; to Penn IUR staff Amy Montgomery, Greg Scruggs, and Daniel Stout for helping bring this project to completion; and to the leadership and staff at Penn Press, particularly Peter Agree, and the development editors, Audra Wolfe and Edward J. Blum, whose thoroughness and care helped guide and shape the volume. The views expressed in this volume are those of the individual authors and not those of our sponsor organizations. ...