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Book Review: The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Businesses and Conflict

Book Review: The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Businesses and Conflict Book Reviews REGION:PLANNING THE FUTURE OF THE TWIN CITIES, by Myron Orfield and Thomas F. Luce, Jr. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. ISBN: 978–0- 8166–6556-3, 354 pp. (hardback) Reviewed by Kevin Fox Gotham Tulane University The dominant pattern of metropolitan development in the United States is outward sociospatial expansion associated with inequitable growth patterns, intercity competition for investment, large fiscal disparities between cities, traffic congestion, housing and job sprawl, and segregated schools and settlement spaces, among other features. Orfield and Luce’s book focuses on the consequences of uneven metropolitan development in the Twin Cities area in the policy realms of governance and finance, neighborhood and school segregation, transportation and jobs, and the environment. The 11 county Twin Cities region contains 3.1 million people, 300 cities and townships, and 1,700 combinations of tax rates and public services. For the authors, unbalanced growth, decentralization, and deconcentration are the major factors that explain the problems of concentrated poverty, fiscal disparities, job sprawl, housing and school segregation, and pollution. A guiding premise is that political fragmentation is the dominant orga- nizing logic in our metropolitan areas and public policies and land-use decisions provide incentives to maintaining inequitable and environmentally destructive http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Book Review: The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Businesses and Conflict

Zhou, Min
City and Community , Volume 11 (4): 1 – Dec 1, 2012
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© 2012 American Sociological Association
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1535-6841
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1540-6040
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10.1111/j.1540-6040.2012.01420.x
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Book Reviews REGION:PLANNING THE FUTURE OF THE TWIN CITIES, by Myron Orfield and Thomas F. Luce, Jr. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. ISBN: 978–0- 8166–6556-3, 354 pp. (hardback) Reviewed by Kevin Fox Gotham Tulane University The dominant pattern of metropolitan development in the United States is outward sociospatial expansion associated with inequitable growth patterns, intercity competition for investment, large fiscal disparities between cities, traffic congestion, housing and job sprawl, and segregated schools and settlement spaces, among other features. Orfield and Luce’s book focuses on the consequences of uneven metropolitan development in the Twin Cities area in the policy realms of governance and finance, neighborhood and school segregation, transportation and jobs, and the environment. The 11 county Twin Cities region contains 3.1 million people, 300 cities and townships, and 1,700 combinations of tax rates and public services. For the authors, unbalanced growth, decentralization, and deconcentration are the major factors that explain the problems of concentrated poverty, fiscal disparities, job sprawl, housing and school segregation, and pollution. A guiding premise is that political fragmentation is the dominant orga- nizing logic in our metropolitan areas and public policies and land-use decisions provide incentives to maintaining inequitable and environmentally destructive

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