Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 2 (2017)

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Digital communications among homeless people: Anomaly or necessity?
Donald C. Reitzes, Josie Parker, Timothy Crimmins & Erin E. Ruel
Pages: 145-159
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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School desegregation after Parents Involved: The complications of pursuing diversity in a high‐stakes accountability era
Erica Frankenberg, Sarah Diem & Colleen Cleary
Pages: 160-184
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Where are the cost savings in city–county consolidation?
Charles D. Taylor, Dagney Faulk & Pamela Schaal
Pages: 185-204
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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The survival of progressive urban politics amid economic adversity
Donald L. Rosdil
Pages: 205-224
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Neighborhood‐level economic activity and crime
Christina Plerhoples Stacy, Helen Ho & Rolf Pendall
Pages: 225-240
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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From old suburb to post-suburb: The politics of retrofit in the inner suburb of Upper Arlington, Ohio
Glennon Sweeney & Bernadette Hanlon
Pages: 241-259
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Exploring the intersection of local economic development and environmental policy
Jeffery L. Osgood, Susan M. Opp & Megan DeMasters
Pages: 260-276
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Negotiating the (legal) right to the city: Public housing demolition and the federal courts in two postindustrial U.S. cities
John N. Robinson III
Pages: 277-290
Published online: 23 Nov 2016
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Collaborative governance for urban revitalization: Lessons from empowerment zones, by Michael J. Rich and Robert P. Stoker
Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2014
Greg Schrock
Pages: 291-292
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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The sustainable urban development reader, third edition, edited by Stephen M. Wheeler and Timothy Beatley
New York, Routledge, 2014
Nicholas Wise
Pages: 293-294
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Innovating in urban economies: Economic transformation in Canadian city-regions, edited by David A. Wolfe
Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2014
David P. Karas
Pages: 294-295
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Urban acupuncture: Celebrating pinpricks of change that enrich city life, by Jaime Lerner Reviewed by Tony Filipovitch
Washington, DC, Island Press, 2014
Tony Filipovitch
Pages: 295-297
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Crisis cities: Disaster and redevelopment in New York and New Orleans, by Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg
New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2014
Russell J. Fricano
Pages: 297-298
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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The inevitable city: The resurgence of New Orleans and the future of urban America, by Scott Cowen with Betsy Seifter
New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Renia Ehrenfeucht
Pages: 298-300
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Crossing Broadway, by Robert W. Snyder
Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2015
Dennis E. Gale
Pages: 300-301
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Environmental activism and the urban crisis, by Robert Gioielli
Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 2014
Peter Harnik
Pages: 302-304
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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Announcement

Announcement
Future Urban Affairs Association conferences
Page: 305
Published online: 13 Feb 2017
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