Subject(s): Municipal government -- Metropolitan government -- Urban policy -- Social and economic context of urban politics -- Poverty, social rights and politics of place in US -- Economic reconstructing as class spatial polarization -- Social polarisation, economic restructuring and welfare state regimes -- Urban politics -- Democracy -- Middle-class regimes of municipal reformers -- Immigration -- Urban power -- Urban political power -- Urban regime analysis -- American urban theories and the redevelopment of Berlin -- Political economy of cities and communities -- Postwar politics of urban development -- Political economy of fiscal crises -- Political economy of urban regimes -- Community empowerment strategies -- Gender, development and urban social change -- Politics of race, ethnicity and gender -- People of colour achieve equality in city government -- Demobilization in the new black political regime: ideological capitulation and radical failure in the post segregation era -- Latin american immigrant women and the turn to electoral politics -- Ethnic stability and urban reconstruction : policy dilemmas in polarized cities -- Cities, regions and nations -- Federal polices in poor communities -- Urban electorate in presidential elections, 1920-1996 -- Urban scarifies -- Regionalism -- Preliminary assessment of the effects of September 11 -- Metropolitan America