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Abstract from the distributor : I used to live in Washington DC, not far from a place I learned to call the “U Street Corridor.” I really had no idea why it was a “corridor” (most places in DC are just “streets”)…

Extract from the Introduction : The Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center began a project in 1997 designed to both identify factors that contribute to making urban areas centers of violence and poverty and propose policy…

Extract from the introduction by Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble and Joseph S. Tulchin : Globalization has had a peculiar impact on cities all over the world, as much in the developed world as in the developing world. Globalization turned out to be…

Extract from the foreword by Stanley Scott and Victor Jones : The Lane series of books — of which this Leningrad volume is the eighth and most recent — is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of…