“Geographies of Whiteness and Wealth: White, Middle Class Discourses on Segregation and Social Mix in Flanders, Belgium.” Volume 37, Issue 4, October 2015 Award Recipients Pascal De Decker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Bruno Meeus (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), and Nick Schuermans (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Universiteit Antwerpen). Award Committee Assessment The committee recommends that the Best Article...Read More
Award Recipient Clarence Stone (George Washington University) Award Committee Assessment Clarence Stone’s work is truly foundational. Virtually everyone in urban political science and in urban studies is at least acquainted with his writing on urban regimes. With regard to teaching, Clarence Stone has been a much loved mentor to several generations of scholars in the...Read More
(Based on articles from the Volume year of 2013) Award Recipient Timothy J. Haney (Mount Royal University) Award Committee Assessment There were many worthy contenders, but the research question, methodology, writing and execution of “Off to Market: Neighborhood and Individual Employment Barriers for Women in 21st Century American Cities” made it a winner across multiple...Read More
Award Recipient Matthew D. Weber (University of Michigan) Award Committee Assessment Mr. Weber is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in Urban and Regional Planning, and he is completing a dissertation entitled “Informal Property Ownership and Shrinking Cities: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options” (under Margaret Dewar (chair), Richard Norton, Martin Murray, and Trina Shanks)....Read More
Award Recipients George Galster (Wayne State University) and Erica Raleigh (Data Driven Detroit). Award Committee Assessment “Neighborhood disinvestment, abandonment and crime dynamics” is an excellent contribution to knowledge on urban processes. Galster and Raleigh provide a comprehensive analysis of a unique dataset, which was recently produced for Detroit on neighborhood decline, vacancies, abandonment and crime....Read More
Award recipient: Desiree Fields (Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York) Award committee assessment: Ms. Fields is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in Environmental Psychology, and she is completing a dissertation entitled “Crisis Tectonics: How Housing Market Crises Reshape the Urban Landscape” (under Susan Saegert, David Harvey, and Kathe Newman). Since 2010, Ms....Read More
Award recipients: “Ethics Matter: The Morality and Justice Principles of Elected City Officials & Impact of Urban Issues,” by Paul Schumacher (Univ. of Kansas) and Marisa Kelly (Ithaca College), Volume 34, Issue 3. Honorable Mention: “Listening Through White Ears: Cross-racial Dialogues as a Strategy to Address the Racial Effects of Gentrification,” by Emily Drew (Williamette...Read More
Award recipient(s): Michael Leo Owens (Emory Univ.) and Jacob Robert Brown (London School of Economics and Political Science) Award committee assessment: In “Weakening Strong Black Political Empowerment: Implications from Atlanta’s 2009 Mayoral Election”, Owens and Brown have made a powerful and nuanced contribution to our understandings of black empowerment and the factors potentially eroding...Read More
Award recipient(s): Rachel Woldoff (West Virginia Univ.) Award committee assessment: Rachael Woldoff’s White Flight/Black Flight makes an important contribution to the field’s understanding of neighborhood transformation. Her ethnographic approach, with more than 90 expansive personal interviews conducted over three years, gives voice to neighborhood residents—elderly whites, pioneer blacks, and second-wave black arrivals. The result is...Read More
