Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments M any people contributed to this book. First, we owe a debt of gratitude to all the administrators and activists in city halls and neighborhoods who have fought against poverty and inequality, and told the tales. We are also grateful for ideas and comments from our colleagues on the city planning and urban studies faculties at UC Berkeley, Cornell University, The New School, and the University of Southern California . We are deeply indebted as well to numerous Cornell graduate students: Kevin Waskelis found and organized reams of data; Anna Read and Vishwesh Viswanathan labored tirelessly on the final tables and figures, collected materials for the text, and contributed to the analysis; and Leah Coldham and Jonathan Wellemeyer worked with patience and skill on the final text, notes, and references. Anna Read prepared the index. Other Cornell graduate students, including Claiborne Walthall, Elizabeth Murphy, Avery Ouellette, Matthew Hendren, and Joy Chen, worked on earlier stages. During the publication process Lynne Frost and Kimberley Vivier were extremely effective with fact checking and copyediting. We thank them all. Finally, we are indebted to Douglas Band and Trevor Zimmer on President Clinton’s staff for facilitating our request for his foreword. ...