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Richardson Dilworth

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Professor at Drexel U and managing editor of Urban Affairs Review. Author of Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy and Reforming Philadelphia, 1682-2022.

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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW on the UAR Forum! The first entry in our year-long series by UAR managing editor @richardsondilworth.bsky.social, "Changing Notions of Urban Crisis.” Stay tuned for more updates and commentaries from our editors this year! www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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Changing Notions of Urban Crisis — Urban Affairs Review
In this brief introductory essay I focus on articles on urban crisis published in the first two decades of UAR , leading up to the 1985 symposium, “Whatever Happened to the Urban Crisis?”, which incl...
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
It has been a bracing moment for American federalism, with both unprecedented efforts to extend executive control over state and local govts, novel forms of subnational resistance. Where is federalism going? Paul Nolette and I have edited a new issue of Publius on that question. Short thread:
Table of Contents for Publius: The Journal of Federalism 56 (1, 2026): The Future of Federalism in the United States

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Introduction: The Future of Federalism in the United States Paul Nolette and Philip Rocco

Can Federalism Protect Subnational Liberal Democracy from Central
Authoritarianism?
James A. Gardner

Tools of Subnational Democratic Subversion: A Taxonomy and Research Agenda
Andrea Louise Campbell and Andrew Karch

Money Is Not Enough: The Temporary Impact of Pandemic-Era Aid on American Fiscal Federalism
Amanda Kass

Federalism and the Future of US Minimum Wage Policy
Shanna Rose

Climate Federalism at a Crossroads: From Compensatory to Coercive and Mitigation to Adaptation
Scott Moore

Who Benefits From Federalism Claims in Federal Court?
Lisa L. Miller

US Federalism and the Political Economy of Territorial Status: Evidence from Puerto Rico
Mariely Lopez-Santana

Federalism and Polarization: How Can Research Be More Relevant?
Carol S. Weissert

Is the Picket Fence Still Standing? Tracing Administrative Federalism in the States Matthew J. Uttermark

From Variables to Mechanisms in Federalism Research
Scott L. Greer
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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 23/11/2025
📢 #CallForPapers 📢 ✍️ #UrbanStudies invites theoretical and case-based contributions that deepen our understanding of the right to the city, urban commons, and urban citizenship by bringing them into conversation with each other. @richardsondilworth.bsky.social 🔗 Details: buff.ly/90uYw0o
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"The May 1 Marchers in Los Angeles: Overcoming Conflicting Frames, Bilingual Women Connectors, English-Language Radio, and Newly Politicized Spanish Speakers” by Kim Yi Dionne, Darin DeWitt, Michael Stone, and Michael Suk-Young Chwe, UAR 51(4), 2015. journals.sagepub.com/share/BKNW9X...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Urban Political Leadership and Political Representation: The Multifaceted Representational Role of Danish Mayors” by Ulrik Kjaer, UAR 51(4), 2015.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"Disinvesting in the City: The Role of Tax Foreclosure in Detroit” by Margaret Dewar, Eric Seymour, and Oana Druță, UAR 51(5), 2015.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"Why Do Local Governments Resist Contracting Out?” by Paola Garrone and Riccardo Marzano, UAR 51(5), 2015.
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Matthew Stenberg @matthewstenberg.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
In our new piece at @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social, @aloysiusod.bsky.social and I try to understand what factors led some municipalities in Poland to implement openly discriminatory policies against LGBTQ+ residents while other, similar municipalities did not. (1/n)
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"Remains of the Progressive City? First Source Hiring in Portland and Chicago” by Greg Schrock, UAR 51(5), 2015.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"New Regionalism—Not Too Complex for the Media Watchdog: Media Reporting and Citizens’ Perception of Democratic Legitimacy in 4 European Metropolitan Areas” Anna Christmann, Daniel Kübler, Karin Hasler, Frank Marcinkowksi, Christian Schemer, UAR 51(5), 2015.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"Assessing the Feasibility of Side Yard Programs as a Solution to Land Vacancy in U.S. Shrinking Cities” by Joanna P. Ganning and J. Rosie Tighe, UAR 51(5), 2015.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"The Imagined Self-Sufficient Communities of HOPE VI: Examining the Community and Social Support Component” by Deirdre Oakley, James Fraser, and Joshua Bazuin, UAR 51(5), 2015.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"The African-American Entrepreneur–Crime Drop Relationship: Growing African-American Business Ownership and Declining Youth Violence” by Karen F. Parker, UAR 51(6), 2015.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"Substantive and Procedural Tolerance: Are Diverse Communities Really More Tolerant?” by Laura A. Reese and Matthew Zalewski, UAR 51(6), 2015.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"What Determines the Formal Versus Relational Nature of Local Government Contracting?" by Meeyoung Lamothe and Scott Lamothe, UAR 48(3), 2012
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"The Proximate Polity: Spatial Context and Political Risk in Local Developmental Goods Provision," by Scott L. Minkoff, UAR 48(3), 2012.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"“There Is Abuse Everywhere”: Migrant Nonprofit Organizations and the Problem of Precarious Work," by Nina Martin, UAR 48(3), 2012.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"Segregation by Design: Mechanisms of Selection of Latinos and Whites into Gated Communities," by Elena Vesselinov, UAR 48(3), 2012.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"Conceptualizing the New Urban Renewal: Comparing the Past to the Present," by Derek S. Hyra, UAR 48(4), 2012.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"Are U.S. Cities Losing Power and Authority? Perceptions of Local Government Actors," by Ann O’M. Bowman and Richard C. Kearney, UAR 48(4), 2012.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Neighborhood Attachment, Social Participation, and Willingness to Stay in China’s Low-Income Communities," by Fulong Wu, UAR 48(4), 2012.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"Neighborhood Connections, Physical Disorder, and Neighborhood Satisfaction in Las Vegas," by Andrea Dassopoulos, Christie D. Batson, Robert Futrell, and Barbara G. Brents, UAR 48(4), 2012.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
"Neighborhood Associations and Social Capital in Japan," by Pepijn van Houwelingen, UAR 48(4), 2012.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🎧NEW on UAR Remixed! Listen to our interview with Gregg Colburn on his new co-authored book (w/ Rebecca Walter), “Affordable Housing in the United States." www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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New Books: Affordable Housing in the United States by Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter — Urban Affairs Review
Listen to our conversation with Gregg Colburn, co-author with Rebecca Walter of Affordable Housing in the United States , published in 2024 by Routledge. Affordable Housing in the United States off...
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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
“If #zohran wins..."The Menace of Prosperity" — a tremendous urban history and storehouse of inspiring precedents and ideas — is going to be required reading in the coming years”- @petedavis.bsky.social, founder of the @Democracy Policy Network Order today. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Menace of Prosperity
Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents.   Many local policymakers mak...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
For our debut post....🥁🥁🥁 Check out the latest episode of UAR Remixed, a companion podcast to @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social. Pt 3 of a 4-pt series on cities + migration, we spoke w/ Domenic Vitiello, Andrew Baldwin, + David Kaufmann on sanctuary cities www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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The Politics and Experience of Sanctuary Cities — Urban Affairs Review
In this four-part miniseries, we spoke with six scholars whose research addresses different aspects, geographies, and approaches to analyzing and understanding the relationship between migration and...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
🎧 The finale of our second podcast miniseries on cities + migration is now LIVE! W/ excerpts from Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Deirdre Conlon, Nancy Hiemstra, David Kaufmann, + Andrew Baldwin. Link to show notes below, find + subscribe on your favorite platform! www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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How Migration Makes a City — Urban Affairs Review
In this four-part miniseries, we spoke with six scholars whose research addresses different aspects, geographies, and approaches to analyzing and understanding the relationship between migration and...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
New year, new articles! Check out the latest by Simon van Zoest + Tom Daamen, "Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen" www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributio...
Value capture (VC) is widely cited as a method for local authorities to continue to provide urban public goods, such as public transport or measures to make neighborhoods more climate-resilient, in ...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
And a fascinating paper on place-based heritage, Black geographies, and multilevel governance theory from Eleonora Redaelli, John Arroyo, & Alexandra May Carson journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Karin Kitchens & Megan Goldberg take a closer look at school board politics in "Partisanship and Professionalization: School Board Decision-Making in the Midst of a Pandemic." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
It was a busy weekend for #onlinefirst at UAR - *3* exciting new articles published since Saturday 👇
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Issue 2 of our 60th anniversary volume is HERE! The editors revisit Michael Lipsky's classic 1971 "Street Level Bureaucracy." Visit our website to read more and view the full TOC 👇 www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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Volume 60, Issue 2 — Urban Affairs Review
Issue 2 of our anniversary volume features an introductory essay by managing editors Richardson Dilworth (Drexel University) and Mara Sidney (Rutgers University-Newark). We revisit Michael Lipsky’s “Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform” published in Urban Affairs Quarterly in 19
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
NEW online first! By J. Cameron Anglum, Anita Manion, + Sapna Varkey, "Increasing Minimum Teacher's Salaries: Opportunities & Drawbacks across Geography and Race." Read the write-up on our website and find the full article below 👇 www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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Increasing Minimum Teacher Salaries: Opportunities and Drawbacks Across Geography and Race — Urban Affairs Review
One might be hard-pressed to turn on the evening news these days and avoid reports of some form of staffing shortage, a phenomenon which seems to cut across a myriad of professions ranging from bus ...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
🎺🎺🎺 NEW ISSUE! Issue 3 of our 60th anniversary volume is now available, w/reflections from @timweaver.bsky.social + Christina Greer on Elinor Ostrom's (1983) "Social Stratification-Government Inequality Thesis" www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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60.3 — Urban Affairs Review
Issue 3 of our anniversary volume features an introductory essay by managing editors Christina Greer (Fordham University) and Tim Weaver (University at Albany). We revisit Elinor Ostrom’s“The Social...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Finally, our entire back catalog of book reviews is now OPEN ACCESS! You can access a rotating list of featured reviews, curated by UAR editors, along with a link to the catalog on our website www.urbanaffairsreview.com/book-reviews
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We successfully launched three separate podcast series for UAR Remixed since last summer! Our latest, produced by @templeunivpress.bsky.social, "Political Lessons from American Cities," is underway. You can find it wherever you listen to podcasts www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-remixed
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's been a while since we posted! Here's a quick round-up of some of the work we've done @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social this year 👇
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New article @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social by @bwitkovsky.bsky.social, "Cities and Their Neighbors," a highly topical analysis of the urban-rural divide in Wisconsin. urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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Cities and Their Neighbors: Examining the Rural–Urban Divide on a Local Scale — Urban Affairs Review
Kenosha County, Wisconsin held the state's only contested race for District Attorney last year. The community's recent history of protest and violence resurfaced in the campaign as the Republican cand...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
@urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social welcomes authors who would like to participate in this open peer review system. Please drop us a note when you submit your paper if you're interested!
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
And finally, @alexkarner.bsky.social + Jonathan Shuster's response essay journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🎺🎺🎺 We're thrilled to announce that we just published its FIRST EVER open peer review on @alexkarner.bsky.social + Jonathan Shuster's "All Aboard: Light Rail, Mobility Justice, & the Future of Public Transit in Austin, TX," w/comments by @jen-nelles.bsky.social + Martin Horak. Links 👇
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
From @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social co-editor Christina Greer, this incisive op-ed in @nytopinion.nytimes.com published today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
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Opinion | Black Americans Are Not Surprised by What Trump’s Doing
Many Black Americans are not surprised by the way Trump is running roughshod over the rule of law, because they have seen it happen throughout American history.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
And "For an Urban Politics of Public Health" by Michael Brown journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
And two excellent reviewer commentaries on the symposium, including "An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States" by @philiprocco.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States - Philip Rocco, 2025
Social scientists often treat places as containers for social and economic phenomena that shape health outcomes. Yet this analytic practice conceals more than i...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🎺🎺🎺 NEW SYMPOSIUM on @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social from guest editor @charleywillison.bsky.social, "The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics + Public Health." Intro here, follow the thread for more great scholarship 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
NEW symposium from guest editor @charleywillison.bsky.social on local politics and public health. Click the link below for the full table of contents: www.urbanaffairsreview.com/public-health
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"Why History (Still) Matters: Time and Temporality in Urban Political Analysis" by Joel Rast, UAR 48(1), 2012.
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"The Collision of Faith and Economic Development in Toronto’s Inner Suburban Industrial Districts" by Jason Hackworth and Kirsten Stein, UAR 48(1), 2012.
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