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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Looking for regional solutions to local limitations of opportunity in education, jobs and housing<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_add_query.cgi/7700/712A_reg.ctl" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_modify_query.cgi" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/sc_checkout.cgi" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Restructuring the Philadelphia Region</h1>
<H2>Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality</H2>
<h3>Carolyn Adams, David W. Bartelt, David Elesh and Ira Goldstein with Joshua Freely Michelle Schmitt </h3>
<P>cloth 1-59213-896-9 $74.50, Jul 08, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT>
<br>paper 1-59213-897-7 $25.95, Aug 08, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT>
<BR> 248 pp
6x9
47 tables 26 map(s) 38 halftones
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"By redefining what it means to be a city, this book takes urbanists well into the 21st century. Using the Philadelphia metropolis as an elaborate case study, the authors show us that cities cannot be fully understood apart from their regions, that regions unconsciously govern themselves, and that education, housing, and employment are vital for a region's future. With a keen eye and refreshing insights, the authors have brought the study of the metropolis to a new level and one which should serve as a model for other scholars."</I>
<br>—<b>Hank V. Savitch</b>, Brown and Williamson Distinguished Research Professor, University of Louisville, Urban & Public Affairs</I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p><i>Restructuring the Philadelphia Region</i> offers one of the most comprehensive and careful investigations written to date about metropolitan inequalities in America’s large urban regions. Moving beyond simplistic analyses of cities-versus-suburbs, the authors use a large and unique data set to discover the special patterns of opportunity in greater Philadelphia, a sprawling, complex metropolitan region consisting of more than 350 separate localities. With each community operating its own public services and competing to attract residents and businesses, the places people live offer them dramatically different opportunities.</p>
<p>The book vividly portrays the region’s uneven development—paying particular attention to differences in housing, employment and educational opportunities in different communities—and describes the actors who are working to promote greater regional cooperation. Surprisingly, local government officials are not prominent among those actors. Instead, a rich network of “third-sector” actors, represented by nonprofit organizations, quasi-governmental authorities and voluntary associations, is shaping a new form of regionalism.</p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><i>"Policy analysts have often highlighted inequities resulting from uneven regional development and blocked opportunity. But as the global economy transforms a </i>moral<i> imperative into a </i>competitiveness<i> imperative, </i>Restructuring the Philadelphia Region<i> is an indispensable guide for political, business, and civic leaders seeking to create a more dynamic and inclusive region"</i><br>—<b>Paul R. Levy</b>, President and CEO, Center City District, Philadelphia
<p><i>"</i>Restructuring the Philadelphia Region<i> reminds us that place still matters. As Adams, Bartelt, Elesh, and Goldstein document, where people live both facilitates and constrains access to opportunity in America. But new actors are emerging to confront these challenges. Third-sector entities (e.g., community development financial institutions, charter schools, foundations), along with state governments, are assuming roles traditionally reserved for city governments, perhaps for better, perhaps for worse."</i>
<br>—<b>Gregory D. Squires</b>, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
<BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Carolyn Adams</b> is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.</P>
<P><b>David W. Bartelt</b> is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University</P>
<P><b>David Elesh</b> is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Science Data Library at Temple University</P>
<P><b>Ira Goldstein</b> is Director of Policy and Information Services for The Reinvestment Fund.</P>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/philly.html" TARGET="_top">Philadelphia Region</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/urban.html" TARGET="_top">Urban Studies</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/pvpv.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Philadelphia Voices, Philadelphia Visions</a></i>, edited by David W. Bartelt.
</p><p>Philadelphia has always been a city that has embraced a richness of voice and vision, defying attempts to define it in a one-dimensional frame. Books in this series,<i>Philadelphia Voices, Philadelphia Visions</i>, edited by David W. Bartelt, will give voice to the diverse communities and perspectives that help define the city, and to address public issues that the city's community, civic and academic leadership raise in the public arena. The series is interdisciplinary, encompassing discussions of social divisions, cultural heterogeneity, and the importance of popular culture as expressions of communities that critique, celebrate, and continually reconstitute the Philadelphia region.</p>
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