Problem, research strategy, and findings: The ability of planning to address America's urban
problems of inequality, crime, housing, education, and segregation is hampered by a …

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data
from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and …

Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation
Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship …

Why do people vote against their interests? Previous explanations miss something
fundamental because they do not consider the work of group consciousness. Based on …

Social divisions between American partisans are growing, with Republicans and Democrats
exhibiting homophily in a range of seemingly nonpolitical domains. It has been widely …

In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the
prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status attainment in the United …

America has become a nation of suburbs. Confronting the popular image of suburbia as
simply a refuge for affluent whites, The New Suburban History rejects the stereotypes of a …

Boon or blight? Ann Bowman and Michael Pagano define" vacant land" broadly, to include
everything from brownfields (environmentally contaminated land) through trashed lots and …

Despite the importance of local elections in the United States, political scientists have little
knowledge of what shapes vote choice in most municipalities and special districts …

How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities
remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? In …