We are excited to announce a call for our APSA short course 'Building sustainable cities' on September 4 in Philadelphia. If you are interested, please fill out this form by May 15: forms.gle/4jN5VZR7z4LCiC…. APSA Urban Politics African Cities Research Consortium Veronica Herrera Tanu Kumar GLD

The 3rd article in my series w Amanda Kass is out in Urban Affairs Review. We look at a cohort of 13 cities’ use of ARPA funds to support community violence intervention and walk out implications for pandemic aid’s role in reshaping urban politics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Another new article from me and Philip Rocco: “Local Governments, Pandemic Aid, and Community Violence Intervention” in Urban Affairs Review journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CCHRBCE…

Now available online! Check out the first issue of V. 60, celebrating 60 years of UAR. With commentary from Richardson Dilworth and John Mollenkopf, the editors revisit Ralph Conant's seminal 1968 article, 'Black Power: Rhetoric & Reality'
urbanaffairsreview.com/volume-60

Draft complete.

Best headline from Inquirer election coverage: “Here are the winners in Philadelphia City Council’s uncontested races.”

New reviews in #JAPAplanning and Urban Affairs Review of my 2022 book on university-led redevelopment from Penn Press. Thank you American Planning Association Harley Etienne & Marc Doussard! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…; journals.sagepub.com/eprint/EENXTYX…

I have largely stopped posting at this place, but needed to post this picture my wife sent me of a live bird sitting on the pizza at a Whole Foods.

If you are interested in the rise of authoritarianism, urbanisation in the global South, the ways in which ruling elites try to dominate city populations, and the way those populations respond....

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Forthcoming September 2023.

As one Council observer just noted to me, the budget's business tax reductions save small operators a few hundred bucks while zoning overlay expansions like this saddle those effected with thousands of dollars of legal costs (at best) inquirer.com/news/philadelp…

Tomorrow night at 5:30, Richardson Dilworth talks about REFORMING PHILADELPHIA, 1682-2022 at the Philadelphia City Institute branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia , 1905 Locust St.
libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event…

Very honored and grateful to learn that my article in Theory and Society, “Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution,” is this year’s winner of the ASA Sociology Sociology of Development Faculty Article Award!

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For scholars of Los Angeles, my article on 'Los Angeles' for Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies is out! It's a valuable resource for grad students and others working on LA! Thanks to Richardson Dilworth and the editorial team for shepherding this through. oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/…

We just published a piece on the future of survey-based data collection for local government research. Can't wait for you all to check it out!
#localgovernments #survey #response_rates

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Very pleased to see that my IMFG forum piece on Strong Mayors in Ontario has been published. With excellent contributions from Gabriel Eidelman, Karen Chapple, Matt Elliott, and Alison Smith. imfg.munkschool.utoronto.ca/research/doc/?…. Enjoy!

The greatest danger facing the survival of the United States of America is Donald Trump.

Richardson Dilworth, author of REFORMING PHILADELPHIA, 1682-2022, will present his book in a hybrid in-person and Zoom event Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street in Philadelphia, PA, on May 16 at 11:00 am. libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event…

🥁🥁🥁 Urban Affairs Review is thrilled to introduce the inaugural #gradstudentspotlight feature: Farwa Zaidi of DrexelURBS program!

Finally arrived in Hong Kong! Looking forward to diving in 🥸 thanks to the editors for compiling over the past few years! Roger Keil

The first independent, public Philly mayor’s race poll is in and…

It’s a statistical dead heat.

Details: inquirer.com/politics/elect…