New York and Los Angeles

The Uncertain Future

Edited by David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge

The first in-depth study of the two cities and regions to use the most up-to-date data to understand the financial crisis's continuing impact
Showcases new and noteworthy material from the original research of leading scholars on housing, education, crime, racial and economic inequality, and many other fields

New York and Los Angeles

The Uncertain Future

Edited by David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge

Description

This book provides in-depth comparative studies of the two largest cities and metropolitan areas in the United States: New York City and Los Angeles. The chapters, written by leading experts and based upon the most current information available from the Census and other sources, discuss and explicitly compare politics, economic prospects and the financial crisis, and a host of social issues. Reform movements in education, ethnic politics, budget stringency, strategies to deal with crime, the development and political context of infrastructure, rising inequality, immigration and immigrant communities, the segregation of the poor and minorities and the new segregation of the economic elite, environmental impacts and attempts to deal with them, the image of both cities and regions in the movies, architectural trends, and the differential impact and response to the financial crisis, including foreclosure patterns, are all examined in this volume.

This comparative framework reveals that old paradigms such as urban "decline" or "resurgence" are inadequate for grasping the new challenges and complexities facing America's two major global cities. Each is responding in sometimes similar and different ways to the challenges brought on by two events that defined the last decade: the attack of 9/11 and its aftermath, and the continuing effects of the financial crisis. How all of these events, institutions, and trends play out in the New York and Los Angeles regions is important not only for the two cities, but also as a harbinger for other U.S. cities, the entire nation, and cities worldwide. New York and Los Angeles provides an essential guide for understanding the many forces that determine the future of our cities.

New York and Los Angeles

The Uncertain Future

Edited by David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge

Chapter 1. Introduction New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future
David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge
PART I: Overview
Chapter 2. The Big Picture: Demographic and Other Changes
Andrew Beveridge and Sydney Beveridge
Chapter 3. The New York and Los Angeles Economies from Boom to Crisis
David L. Gladstone and Susan S. Fainstein
Chapter 4. America's Leading International Trade Centers and their Entrepreneurial Agencies: Challenges and Strategies in the New York and Los Angeles Regions
Jameson W. Doig, Steven P. Erie and Scott A. MacKenzie
PART II: Politics and Economics
Chapter 5. New York City and Los Angeles: Government and Political Influence
John Mollenkopf and Raphael J. Sonenshein
Chapter 6. Financial and Economic Crisis and the Politics of Ongoing Dramas
David Halle and Andrew Beveridge
Chapter 7. New York City and Los Angeles: Taxes, Budgets and Managing the Financial Crisis
George Sweeting and Andrea Dinneen
PART III: Social and Urban Problems
Chapter 8. Policing, Crime and Legitimacy in New York and Los Angeles: The Social and Political Contexts of Two Historic Crime Declines
Jeffrey Fagan and John MacDonald
Chapter 9. LA and New York Schools: Reform, Organization, and Disorganization
Julia Wrigley
Chapter 10. How New York and Los Angeles Housing Policies Are Different-and Maybe Why
Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O'Flaherty
Chapter 11. Residential Diversity and Division: Separation and Segregation among Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Affluent, and Poor.
Andrew Beveridge, David Halle, Eddie Telles, and Beth DuFault
PART IV: Immigration and Ethnic Communities
Chapter 12. New York and Los Angeles as Immigrant Destinations: Contrasts and Convergence
Nancy Foner and Roger Waldinger
Chapter 13. The Transformation of Chinese America: New York v. Los Angeles
Min Zhou, Margaret M. Chin and Rebecca Kim
PART V: Planning and Environmentalism
Chapter 14. Planning L.A.: The Changing Politics of Neighborhood and Downtown Development
Andrew Deener, Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, and Forrest Stuart
Chapter 15. Environmental and Social Justice Movements and Policy Change in Los Angeles: Is an Inside-Outside Game Possible?
Martha Matsuoka and Robert Gottlieb
Chapter 16. A Land Ethic for the City of Water
Kristen Van Hooreweghe, Steve Lang, and William Kornblum
PART VI: Culture
Chapter 17. In LA, You Know Where Architecture's At
Rick Bell
Chapter 18. New York, LA and Chicago as Depicted in Hit Movies.
David Halle, Eric Vanstrom, Jan Reiff and Ted Nitschke
Chapter 19. Nonprofit Organizations in New York City and Los Angeles: A Comparison
Helmut K Anheier, David Howard, and Marcus Lam

New York and Los Angeles

The Uncertain Future

Edited by David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge

Author Information

Edited by David Halle, Professor of Sociology, UCLA, and Andrew A. Beveridge, Professor of Sociology, Queen's College and CUNY Graduate Center

David Halle is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also an adjunct professor at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and the author of America's Working Man: Work, Home, and Politics among Blue-Collar Property Owners and Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home. Andrew A. Beveridge is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

Contributors:

Helmut K. Anheier, Professor of Sociology and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin

Rick Bell, Executive Director, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects

Andrew A. Beveridge, Professor of Sociology, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York and President, Social Explorer, Inc.

Sydney Beveridge, Media and Content Editor, Social Explorer, Inc.

Margaret M. Chin, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, City University of New York

Andrew Deener, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut

Andrea Dinneen, University of California, Los Angeles

Jameson W. Doig, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Beth DuFault, University of California, Los Angeles

Ingrid Gould Ellen, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Steven P. Erie, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

Jeffrey Fagan, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law

Susan Fainstein, Senior Research Fellow in Urban Planning, Harvard University

Nancy Foner, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, City University of New York.

David Gladstone, Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Studies, University of New Orleans

Robert Gottlieb, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy, Occidental College

David Halle, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

David Howard, Director of Research and Innovation, The Doe Fund, Inc.

Rebecca Kim, Professor of Sociology, Pepperdine University

Vladimir Kogan, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University

William Kornblum, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York, Graduate Center.

Marcus Lam, Professor of Social Work, Columbia University.

Steve Lang, Professor of Sociology, Laguardia Community College

John MacDonald, Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania

Scott A. MacKenzie, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis

Martha Matsuoka, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy, Occidental College

John Mollenkopf, Professor Political Science, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Theodore Glen Nitschke, Office Manager, Kaplan Stahler Agency

Brendan O'Flaherty, Professor of Economics, Columbia University

Jan Reiff, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Raphael Sonenshein, Executive Director, Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs, California State University, Los Angeles

Forrest Stuart, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

George Sweeting, Deputy Director, New York City's Independent Budget Office

Edward Telles, Professor of Political Science, Princeton University

Kristen Van Hooreweghe, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

Eric Vanstrom, Doctoral Candidate of Cinema and Media Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Roger Waldinger, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Julia Wrigley, Associate University Provost and Professor of Sociology, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Min Zhou, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

New York and Los Angeles

The Uncertain Future

Edited by David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge

Reviews and Awards

"All the chapters are coherent and well integrated with the book's overall goal. This fascinating tale of two cities makes a valuable contribution to comparative urban sociology, and the volume should serve as an important source book for students, scholars, and planners and policy makers interested in urban issues in the US." - CHOICE

"This book presents some interesting and provocative comparative insights into LA and NYC as of 2010." - Lily M Hoffman, Urban Studies

New York and Los Angeles

The Uncertain Future

Edited by David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge

From Our Blog

Bill Bratton on both coasts

Inspired by a chapter on policing by leading criminologists Jeffrey Fagan (Columbia University) and John McDonald (University of Pennsylvania), the editors of the recently published volume New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future, David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge, along with Sydney Beveridge, take a closer look at the consequences of the recent New York mayoral race.

Posted on December 24, 2013

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