Most-Read Articles, August 2015

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1. New Directions:
   

   • Frank Hendriks

   Understanding Good Urban Governance: Essentials, Shifts, and ValuesUrban Affairs Review July 2014 50: 553-576, first published onDecember 4, 2013 doi:10.1177/1078087413511782
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2. Articles:
   

   • Susan S. Fainstein

   Cities and Diversity: Should We Want It? Can We Plan For It?Urban Affairs Review September 2005 41: 3-19,doi:10.1177/1078087405278968
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3. Articles:
   

   • Robert J. Chaskin

   Building Community Capacity: A Definitional Framework and Case Studies from a Comprehensive Community InitiativeUrban Affairs Review January 2001 36: 291-323,doi:10.1177/10780870122184876
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4. Articles:
   

   • Susan S. Fainstein

   New Directions in Planning TheoryUrban Affairs Review March 2000 35: 451-478,doi:10.1177/107808740003500401
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5. Articles:
   

   • Lance Freeman

   Displacement or Succession?: Residential Mobility in Gentrifying NeighborhoodsUrban Affairs Review March 2005 40: 463-491,doi:10.1177/1078087404273341
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6. Articles:
   

   • Zoltan Hajnal and
    
   • Jessica Trounstine

   What Underlies Urban Politics? Race, Class, Ideology, Partisanship, and the Urban VoteUrban Affairs Review January 2014 50: 63-99, first published on April 29, 2013 doi:10.1177/1078087413485216
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7. Articles:
   

   • Rod K. Brunson and
    
   • Ronald Weitzer

   Police Relations with Black and White Youths in Different Urban NeighborhoodsUrban Affairs Review July 2009 44: 858-885, first published onDecember 8, 2008 doi:10.1177/1078087408326973
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8. Articles:
   

   • XiaoHu Wang, 
   • Christopher Hawkins, 
   • and Evan Berman

   Financing Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement: Evidence from U.S. CitiesUrban Affairs Review November 2014 50: 806-834, first published onFebruary 12, 2014 doi:10.1177/1078087414522388
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9. Articles:
   

   • Susan M. Opp and
    
   • Kyle L. Saunders

   Pillar Talk: Local Sustainability Initiatives and Policies in the United States—Finding Evidence of the “Three E’s”: Economic Development, Environmental Protection, and Social EquityUrban Affairs Review September 2013 49: 678-717, first published onJanuary 2, 2013 doi:10.1177/1078087412469344
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10. From the Editors:An Expression of AppreciationUrban Affairs Review July 2015 51: 578-583,doi:10.1177/1078087415589866
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Author's Blog: A Strategic Framework for Building Civic Capacity

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

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Stephen Page, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington

Wicked Problems and Civic Capacity

Cities today face various wicked problems that prompt fundamental disagreements and distrust within the body politic (Rittel and Weber 1973).  Land use, transportation, housing, education, and other complex issues confound policy makers’ abilities to agree on the contours of problems, much less devise and implement effective solutions that satisfy citizens.