Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Why Good Neighborhoods? 13
7. 2. A Dynamic Systems Approach to Understanding Neighborhood Change 32
8. 3. The Rise of the American Urban Neighborhood, 1860–1950 51
9. 4. The American Urban Neighborhood under Siege, 1950–1990 70
10. 5. The Polarization of the American Neighborhood, 1990–2020 99
11. 6. Neighborhoods as Markets 122
12. 7. Neighborhoods in an Era of Demographic Change and Economic Restructuring 145
13. 8. The Continuing yet Changing Significance of Race 167
14. 9. Agents of Neighborhood Change 189
15. 10. Deconstructing Gentrification 212
16. 11. The Crisis of the Urban Middle Neighborhood 234
17. 12. The Persistence of Concentrated Poverty Neighborhoods 259
18. 13. Neighborhood Change in the Suburbs 280
19. 14. The Theory and Practice of Neighborhood Change 305
20. Notes 323
21. Index 361