The Dream Revisited

Ingrid Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Planning and the Co-Director of the Urban Planning Program at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the Co-Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University. She is the author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard, 2000) and co-editor of How to House the Homeless (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2010).Steil Justin :

Justin Steil is the Spaulding Career Development Assistant Professor of Law and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the coeditor of Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2009).Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She is the author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (2000) and coeditor of How to House the Homeless (2010).

Justin Peter Steil is the Class of 1942 Assistant Professor of Law and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the coeditor of Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice (2009).

Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City:
The deep engagement and spirited debate found in The Dream Revisited make it a must-read for political leaders, housing advocates, and researchers seeking to understand the causes and consequences of segregation in America. Segregation anchors our nation’s schools, neighborhoods, and families in inequality. Through a wide range of perspectives penned by top scholars, Ellen and Steil’s volume helps us understand not only how we are divided but how we might finally address one of America’s most vexing problems.

Xavier de Souza Briggs, Vice President, Inclusive Economies and Markets, Ford Foundation:
Likely to be the leading reference point for discussion and action for years to come, this must-read volume offers pointed debate among a who’s who of scholars and practitioners. One would need a small library to cover so much critical terrain half as well. More importantly, the dozens of diverse contributors are willing to squarely face fundamental questions about whether racial and economic integration is, in fact, worthwhile for America and, if so, how it can be achieved at a time of dramatic social and technological change.