The important, provocative issues in this popular reader—including fixing urban schools, dealing with aging infrastructure, and addressing the mortgage crisis—are sure to lay needed groundwork and spark lively classroom discussion. For current coverage of controversial and important policy issues centering on urban politics, offer your students the balanced reporting and engaging writing that CQ Researcher has consistently provided for over eighty years.

This ideal supplement allows students to see an issue from all sides while giving them a window into how policy is actually made and implemented. In addition, useful pedagogical features—pro/con pieces, graphs, tables, maps, photos, suggested readings, and bibliographies—advance critical thinking and help in study and review.

RACE, CLASS AND ETHNICITY

1. Domestic Poverty

2. Immigration Debate

3. Mortgage Crisis

4. America in Flux

EDUCATION

5. Fixing Urban Schools

6. Racial Diversity in Public Schools

LAW ENFORCEMENT AND HOMELAND SECURITY

7. Fighting Crime

8. Disaster Preparedness

LAND USE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

9. Aging Infrastructure

10. Mass Transit Boom

11. Downtown Renaissance

12. Property Rights

“Urban Issues is an excellent companion to urban politics and government textbooks. The articles are timely, provocative and well researched. In the past, I have found Urban Issues to be an effective tool for engaging students in urban social and political issues.”

“Urban Issues presents new topics in sync with the evolving policy agendas of major American cities as they confront new problems in an ever-changing urban landscape. Students will find issues analyzed from varying perspectives in an objective, detailed and thought-provoking manner. For a course in urban politics, this text makes a smooth leap from the headlines of our major city dailies to the discussion in the lecture hall.”