Most experts consider economic development to be the dominant factor influencing urban politics. They point to the importance of the finance and real estate ind

How did a scrawny black kid -- the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton -- become the 106th mayor of New York City? It's a remarkabl

Have the last two decades produced a New York composed of two separate and unequal cities? As the contributors to Dual City reveal, the complexity of inequality

This widely acclaimed study of political power in a metropolitan community portrays the political system in its entirety and in balance—and retains much of th