Table of Contents

Introduction - W Dennis Keating
Federal Policy and Poor Urban Neighborhoods - W Dennis Keating
Atlanta - Larry Keating
Peoplestown - Resilience and Tenacity versus Institutional Hostility
Camden, New Jersey - Robert A Catlin
Urban Decay and the Absence of Public-Private Partnerships
Chicago - Robert Giloth
Community Building on Chicago′s West Side - North Lawndale 1960-1997
Cleveland - Norman Krumholz
The Hough and Central Neighborhoods - Empowerment Zones and Other Urban Policies
Detroit - Mittie O Chandler
Staying the Course - Detroit′s Struggle to Revitalize the Inner City
East St Louis, Illinois - Kenneth Reardon
Promoting Community Development through Empowerment Planning
Los Angeles - Ali Modarres
Borders to Poverty - Empowerment Zones and Spatial Politics of Development
Miami - Dennis E Gale
The Overtown Neighborhood - A Generation of Revitalization Strategies Gone Awry
New York - Tom Angotti
Challenges Facing Neighborhoods in Distress
Future Prospects for Distressed Urban Neighborhoods - W Dennis Keating and Norman Krumholz

Reviews

". . .a useful book, clearly written. . .accessible for students of urban studies and the practitioners who wish to know about the American efforts to deal with the problems of distressed neighborhoods." 
*Ali Madanipour*