American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality

In 1998, Myron Orfield introduced a revolutionary program for combating the seemingly inevitable decline of America's metropolitan communities. Through a combination of demographic research, state-of-the-art mapping, and resourceful, pragmatic politics, his groundbreaking book, Metropolitics, revealed how the different regions of St. Paul and Minneapolis pulled together to create a regional government powerful enough to tackle the community's problems of sprawl and urban decay. Orfield's new work, American Metropolitics, applies the next generation of cutting-edge research on a much broader scale. The book provides an eye-opening analysis of the economic, racial, environmental, and political trends of the 25 largest metropolitan regions in the United States—which contain more than 45 percent of the U.S. population. Using detailed maps and case studies, Orfield demonstrates that growing social separation and wasteful sprawling development patterns are harming regional citizens wherever they live.

With detailed maps of conditions in each metropolitan region, comprehensive data on existing conditions and voter attitudes, and bold, innovative strategies for change, American Metropolitics is an important book for anyone concerned with the future of our cities and suburbs.

• Educational Research
• Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World (Contemporary Societies Series)
• Organizational Theory for Equity and Diversity (Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity)
• Culturally Responsive School Leadership (Race and Education)
• Data Wise, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning
• The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition
• Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
• Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
• Politics, Markets, and America's Schools