September 2015 Issue

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September 2015; 51 (5)

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  • Margaret Dewar, 
  • Eric Seymour, 
  • and Oana Druță

  Disinvesting in the City: The Role of Tax Foreclosure in Detroit

  Urban Affairs Review September 2015 51: 587-615, first published on October 7, 2014 doi:10.1177/1078087414551717
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  • Paola Garrone and
   
  • Riccardo Marzano

  Why Do Local Governments Resist Contracting Out?

  Urban Affairs Review September 2015 51: 616-648, first published on September 29, 2014 doi:10.1177/1078087414549548
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  • Greg Schrock

  Remains of the Progressive City? First Source Hiring in Portland and Chicago

  Urban Affairs Review September 2015 51: 649-675, first published on June 25, 2014 doi:10.1177/1078087414537607
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  • Anna Christmann, 
  • Daniel Kübler, 
  • Karin Hasler, 
  • Frank Marcinkowksi, 
  • and Christian Schemer

  New Regionalism—Not Too Complex for the Media Watchdog: Media Reporting and Citizens’ Perception of Democratic Legitimacy in Four European Metropolitan Areas

  Urban Affairs Review September 2015 51: 676-707, first published on September 26, 2014 doi:10.1177/1078087414549549
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  • Joanna P. Ganning and
   
  • J. Rosie Tighe

  Assessing the Feasibility of Side Yard Programs as a Solution to Land Vacancy in U.S. Shrinking Cities

  Urban Affairs Review September 2015 51: 708-725, first published on November 17, 2014 doi:10.1177/1078087414555435
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  • Deirdre Oakley, 
  • James Fraser, 
  • and Joshua Bazuin

  The Imagined Self-Sufficient Communities of HOPE VI: Examining the Community and Social Support Component

  Urban Affairs Review September 2015 51: 726-746, first published on August 5, 2014 doi:10.1177/1078087414544461
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Authors' Blog: “Us Up Here and Them Down There”: How Design, Management, and Neighborhood Facilities Shape Social Distance in a Mixed-Tenure Housing Development

This is an author-produced blog post to introduce upcoming Urban Affairs Review articles. This article is available in OnlineFirst.

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“Us Up Here and Them Down There”: How Design, Management, and Neighborhood Facilities Shape Social Distance in a Mixed-Tenure Housing Development

Anouk Tersteeg

Homepage: http://www.uu.nl/staff/AKTersteeg

Fenne Pinkster

Homepage: http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/p/i/f.m.pinkster/f.m.pinkster

Despite the fact that social mix is an essential component of urban policies in Western Europe, it remains unclear at what spatial scale housing diversification programs may be most effective. When people with different backgrounds, household compositions, and lifestyles live in close proximity to one another, the emergence of close social ties is not always guaranteed. On the one hand, living in socially mixed environments may create bridges between residents of different social positions. On the other hand, it can lead to processes of social distancing and reproduce negative stereotypes. This article  explores how these diverging experiences of social closeness or distance may relate to place-specific factors that mediate everyday encounters and interactions such as housing design, management practices and the nature of local facilities and amenities.