Best Conference Paper Award Winners

2013

Michael Leo Owens and Jacob Robert Brown
“Weakening Strong Black Political Empowerment: Implications from Atlanta’s 2009 Mayoral Election”

2012

Diane M. Grams
“Freedom and Cultural Consciousness: Black Working Class Parades in Post-Katrina New Orleans”

2011

Talia M. McCray and Sabina Mora
“Linking Perceptions to Activity Patterns of Low-Income Teenagers”

2010

Laurence Bherer
“Successful and Unsuccessful Participatory Arrangements: Why is There a Participatory Movement at the Local Level?”

2009

Frédérick Douzet
“Revisiting Black Electoral Success: Oakland (CA), 40 Years Later”

2008

Mark Joseph
“Early Resident Experiences at a New Mixed-Income Development in Chicago”

2007

Scott A. Bollens
“Urban Governance at the Nationalist Divide: Coping with Group-Based Claims”

2006

Laurence Crot
“‘Scenographic’ and ‘Cosmetic’ Planning: Globalization and Territorial Restructuring in Buenos Aires”

2005

Kirk McClure
“Deconcentrating Poverty Through Alternative Housing Assistance Programs”

2004

R. Alan Walks
“Place of Residence, the Vote, and Political Attitudes in Canadian Cities and Suburbs.”

2003

Jonathan Davies
“Partnerships versus Regimes: Why Regime Theory Cannot Explain Urban Coalitions in the United Kingdom”

2002

Janet M. Kelly and David Swindell
“Service Quality Variation Across Urban Space: First steps Toward a model of Citizen Satisfaction”

2001

R. Allen Hays
“Habitat for Humanity: Building Social Capital Through Faith Based Service”

2000

Greg Andranovich, Matthew Burbank and Charles Heying
“Olympic Cities: Lessons Learned from Mega-Event Politics”

1999

Michelle Boyd
“Reconstructing Bronzeville: Racial Nostalgia and Neighborhood Development”

1998

John Kincaid
“De facto Devolution and Urban Defunding: The Priority of Persons Over Places”

1997

Larry Bennett
“Do We Really Wish to Live in a Communitarian City? Communitarian Thinking and the Redevelopment of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green Public Housing Complex”

1996

Susan C. Turner
“Barriers to a Better Break: Employer Discrimination and Spatial mismatch in Metropolitan Detroit”

1995

Meredith Ramsay
“The Local Community: Producer of Culture and Wealth”

1994

Andrew Wiese
“Neighborhood Diversity: Social Change, Ambiguity, and Fair Housing since 1968″

1993

Stacy Warren
“Disneyfication of the Metropolis: Popular Resistance in Seattle”

1993

John Ottensmann
“Evaluating Equity in Service Deliver for Public Library Branches by Assessing Service Levels, Distance, and Accessibility”

1992

Robert Beauregard
“Descendents of Ascendant Cities and Other Urban Dualities”

1991

Ali Modarres
“Ethnic Community Development: A Spatial Re-Examination”

1990

Teresa Herrero
“Housing Linkage: Will It Play a Role in the 1990s?”

1989

Judith Garber
“Law and the Possibility for a Just Urban Political Economy”

1988

Todd Swanstrom
“Gimme Shelter: Housing Policy and the Homeless”

1987

Margaret Wilder and Barry Rubin
“Targeted Redevelopment Through Urban Enterprise Zones”

1986

William Velez and Gregory Squires
“Insurance Redlining and the Transformation of the Urban Metropolis”

1985

Douglas Muzzio and Robert Bailey
“Economic Development, Housing and Zoning: A Tale of Two Cities”