“DAWN OF THE DEAD CITY” REDUX

By Robert Silverman, Professor, University at Buffalo Kelly Patterson, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo Li Yin, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo Our article, “Dawn of the Dead City” was first published in the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) in 2013. It was recently resurrected in the May 2016 virtual issue of the journal. The article…

JUA Virtual Issue Available: Global Urban Change

Our latest Virtual Issue has been released! Each Journal of Urban Affairs Virtual Issue features previously published content related to one pressing or noteworthy theme. The topic of our May 2016 Virtual issue is Global Urban Change. The transition from the 20th to the 21st Century has been characterized by processes of rapid urban change,…

Book Review Preview: Evicted

By Gregory D. Squires Matthew Desmond,  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City  (New York:  Crown Publishers 2016). While serving on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board I was frequently informed that the only way to move the Fed was with numbers, meaning sophisticated econometric models. Stories were nice but they…

Welcome to the JUA blog!

The launch of the Journal of Urban Affairs blog will provide us with the opportunity to inspire and engage in conversations about research and urban topics. We welcome submissions from JUA authors and editors on topics related to published research, current issues, and practice. Authors may be asked to write a short blog piece to…