Richardson Dilworth is Professor of Politics at Drexel University. He is author of The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy. Timothy P. R. Weaver teaches political science at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Richardson Dilworth and Timothy P. R. Weaver are absolutely right to call for greater attention to the role of ideas in urban political development, and they present their argument effectively. The essays in this volume illustrate convincingly that we cannot understand key episodes in urban political development without attention to ideas.--Jack Lucas, University of Calgary This far-ranging collection of essays makes an eloquent, powerful case for the importance of ideas in urban governance. Richardson Dilworth and Timothy P. R. Weaver's volume points the way toward vital new areas of research in urban politics and history.--Mason B. Williams, Williams College