Beyond the City Limits: Urban Policy and Economics Restructuring in Comparative Perspective

About the Contributors

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS PIERRE CLAVEL is Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. His most recent book is The Progressive City (Rutgers University Press, 1986), a study of populist and radical politics and planning in Hartford, Cleveland, Berkeley, Santa Monica, and Burlington . He is co-editor of a forthcoming set of essays on local economic policy and neighborhood response in Chicago under the late Mayor Harold Washington, and a founder of the Harold Washington Neighborhood and Economic Development Papers, an archive at the Chicago Historical Society. SUSAN S. FAINSTEIN is Professor of Urban Planning and Policy Development at Rutgers University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on urban political economy and urban redevelopment, including Restructuring the City (Longman, rev. ed., 1986). She is currently working on a book comparing New York and London. RICHARD CHILD HILL is Professor of Sociology and Urban Affairs at Michigan State University. He is a co-author of Restructuring the City (Longman, rev. ed., 1986) and Detroit: Race and Uneven Development (Temple University Press, 1987). He is currently at work on a comparative study of industrial and urban restructuring in the United States and Japan. NANCY KLENIEWSKI is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Urban Studies at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo . She writes frequently on urban problems and policy for both professional journals and nonacademic publications. She is co-author of a forthcoming book on social inequality in Philadelphia and is currently working on a text in urban sociology. 261 Copyrighted Material 262 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS JOHN R. LOGAN is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany. He IS the co-author, With Harvey Molotch, of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (University of California Press, 19871. His current research includes studies of growth politics in suburban regions, national urban pohey, ethnic suburbanization, and support systems for older persons. HARVEY MOLOTCH is Professor of Sociology at University of California , Santa Barbara, where he conducts research on communication and urban studies. His book co-authored with John R. Logan, Urban Fortunes (University of California Press, 19871, won the Robert Park Award and the Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association. MICHAEL PARKINSON is Director of the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Liverpool. He is currently conducting research into urban regeneration in North America and Europe financed by the Leverhulme Trust. He is the author of Liverpool on the Brink (Policy Journals , 19851 and editor of Reshaping Local Government (Policy Journals and Transaction Books, 19871, Regenerating the Cities: The UK Crisis and the American Experience (Scott Foresman, 19891, and Leadership and Urban Regeneration (Sage, 19901. EDMOND PRETECEILLE is director of research at CNRS, Centre de Sociologie Urbaine, Paris. He has published on urban policies and collective consumption, from La Production des Grands Ensembles (19731 to Capitalism. Consumption and Needs (Blackwell, 19851 and Segregation Urbaine (Editions Anthropos, 1986). His present research is focused on the reactions of local policies to economic restructuring and social polarization of the cities. SASKIA SASSEN is Professor and Chair of Urban Planning at Columbia University. She is the author of The Global City: New York London Tokyo (Princeton University Press, 1990) and The Mobility of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow (Cambridge University Press, 1988). H. V. SAVITCH is Professor at the School of Urban Policy, College of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville. He has written for a number of professional journals and has authored Urban Policy and the Exterior City (Pergamon, 1979), Post Industrial Cities (Princeton University Press, 19881, and is co-editor of a forthcoming volume entitled Big City Politics Compared (Sage). Professor Savitch served as consultant for David Dinkins, who is presently Mayor of the City of New York. Copyrighted Material ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 263 TODD SWANSTROM is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany. His book, The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and The Challenge of Urban Populism (Temple University Press, 1985), won the Best Book in Urban Politics Award in 1988 from the American Political Science Association . Currently, he is co-authoring a text on urban politics with Dennis Judd and doing research on homelessness and neighborhood change. JOHN WALTON holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He...