Overview

With his background as a community organizer and as a state legislator representing Chicago s South Side, Barack Obama became America s most urban president since Teddy Roosevelt. But what has been his record in dealing with the issues most impacting our metropolitan areas today? Looking past the current administration, what are the future prospects of the nation s cities, and how have they been shaped by our policies in this century? Seeking to answer these questions, the contributors to ""Urban Policy in the Time of Obama"" explore a broad range of policy arenas that shape, both directly and indirectly, metropolitan areas and urbanization processes.

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Author:   James DeFilippis ,  Cedric Johnson
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   26
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780816696598

ISBN 10:   0816696594
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   08 November 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction James DeFilippis 1. National Urban Policy in the Age of Obama Hilary Silver 2. The Subordination of Urban Policy in the Time of Financialization Robert W. Lake 3. Obama, Race, and Urban Policy Preston H. Smith II 4. Housing Policy and the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis During the Obama Administration Rachel G. Bratt and Dan Immergluck 5. Public Housing Policy under Obama (See the Clinton Administration) Janet Smith 6. Immigrants and the Obama Urban Policies: Tarnishing the Golden Door Christine Thurlow Brenner 7. Obama’s Education Policy: More Markets, More Inequality, New Urban Contestations Pauline Lipman 8. Unions in the Obama Era: Laboring Under False Pretenses? Nik Theodore 9. The Affordable Care Act: A Work Still in Progress. The Achievements and Shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act J. Phillip Thompson 10. Still Swimming, Tides Rising: Community Change, Spatial Interventions, and the Challenge of Federal Place-based Anti-Poverty Public Policies Amy T. Khare 11. Community Development in the Age of Obama Kathe Newman 12. The Incompleteness of Comprehensive Community Revitalization Todd Swanstrom 13. The Obama Administration’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program: From Foreclosure Crisis to What in Nashville’s Chestnut Hill? Deirdre Oakley and James Fraser 14. Sustainable Fair Housing? Reconciling the Spatial Goals of Fair Housing and Sustainable Development in the Obama Administration Edward G. Goetz 15. Regional Policy in the Age of Obama Karen Chapple 16. Making Policy in the Streets Lorraine C. Minnite and Frances Fox Piven Conclusion. Why Urban Policy? On Social Justice, Urbanization, and Urban Policies James DeFilippis Afterword Cedric Johnson Contributors Index

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""DeFilippis brings together a series of insightful analyses that focus on the urban policies of the Obama administration from different but interrelated perspectives.""—Choice

DeFilippis brings together a series of insightful analyses that focus on the urban policies of the Obama administration from different but interrelated perspectives. --<b><i>Choice</i></b></p>

Author Information

James DeFilippis is associate professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He is author or editor of six books, including Unmaking Goliath, which was named ""Best Book in Urban Politics, 2004"" by the American Political Science Association.

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