Thomas J Vicino
Biographic Data
| ID | 136977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas J Vicino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas J |
| FAMILY NAME | Vicino |
| SIGNATURE | VICINO T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4165-0603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb
The Politics of Studentification: An Analysis of the Student Housing Debate in Boston
Recent popular and scholarly work has drawn attention to the relationship between universities and urban housing markets. Universities play a critical role in the post-industrial urban economy and have many impacts beyond their campus. This paper focuses on the policy debates to expand housing for students with the intention of relieving pressure in the rental housing market in cities that are home to many higher education institutions and their …
Urban Crises and the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Analytical Framework for Metropolitan Resiliency
Social scientists of the urban condition have long been interested in the causes and consequences of the phenomena that shape the growth and decline of cities and their suburbs. Such interests have become increasingly relevant in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Over the course of the pandemic, many academic and popular analyses have confronted two essential questions: How has the pandemic changed the city? And given these changes, are they perman…
The Resilient Metropolis: Planning in an Era of Decentralization
This thematic issue of Urban Planning focuses on recent transformations of the built environment, the economy, and society around the world. The articles examine how planning processes and policy responses can adapt to the transformation of metropolitan areas in the pursuit of a more just and resilient society. Key themes are centered on socio-spatial processes that drive the uneven growth, the economic globalization of cities and the pursuant hu…
The Evolution of Authoritarianism and Restrictionism in Brazilian Immigration Policy: Jair Bolsonaro in Historical Perspective
Research on immigration politics has been focused on countries of the Global North. Latin America is often discussed only as a migrant-sending region. This study offers a comparative-historical analysis of Brazilian immigration policy from national independence to the present day. Based on archival research and synthesis of multiple documentation sources, the study finds an affinity between authoritarian politics and immigration restrictionism in…
Confronting chronic shocks: Social resilience in Rio de Janeiro's poor neighborhoods
While much of the literature on social resilience is concerned with how cities overcome “shocks” to the urban system, much less is known about the strategies of survival and adaptation among its poorest residents. We argue that residents in poor, often informal, neighborhoods are faced with chronic shocks, or constantly recurring disasters, such as floods, severe illness, or violent police invasions. In this paper, we draw on focus groups, partic…
The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs
The politics of contested urban space: The 2013 protest movement in Brazil
In June 2013, Brazil witnessed one of its largest protest movements in history when more than 1 million Brazilians marched on city streets to demand improvements to urban life. As the epicenters of protests, cities have become an important location for examining the demands, politics, and social change strategies of contemporary citizenship. In this article, we analyze the evolution of Brazil’s protest movement. Based on participant observation, …
The new Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Region Since the 1960s
Since their founding, the globalization of cities and their suburbs has transformed the socio-spatial structures and political processes of metropolitan areas. Cities, and increasingly their suburb
Breaking the city: Militarization and segregation in Rio de Janeiro
Henry Ford’s plan for the American suburb: Dearborn and Detroit
In Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb, Heather Barrow examines the role that industrialist Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company played in building the American suburb of Dearborn. Located t
Global Migration: The Basics
Migration is a politically sensitive topic and an important aspect of contentious debates about social and cultural diversity, economic stability, terrorism, globalization, and nationalism. Global Migration: The Basics examines: history and geography of global migration the role of migrants in society impact of migrants on the economy and the political system policy challenges that need to be faced in confronting a rapidly changing world economy …
Waterfront politics: Revisiting the case of Camden, New Jersey’s redevelopment
The public policy responses to the enduring socioeconomic struggles of the urban core have dominated public discourse in postwar cities in the United States. Policy-makers have pursued numerous strategies to respond to the conditions of decline. Waterfront redevelopment is one of most common strategies to address these issues, although the benefits rarely extend beyond the core. In a case study of waterfront redevelopment in Camden, New Jersey, w…
Vote Thieves: Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections by Orlando J. Rodriguez
Journal Article Vote Thieves: Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections by Orlando J. Rodriguez Get access Vote Thieves: Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections by Orlando J. Rodriguez. Dulles, VA, Potomac Books, 2011. 192 pp. $26.95. Thomas J. Vicino Thomas J. Vicino Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 127,…
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects: Volume 3 – Edited by Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial and Harold Wolman
A Typology of Urban Immigrant Neighborhoods
Using census data from 2000, the authors examine differentiation among urban immigrant neighborhoods in a sample of U.S. metropolitan areas. They use principal components analysis (PCA) followed by cluster analysis to identify four types of urban immigrant neighborhoods: Hispanic, White Working Class, Asian, and Gentrified. This typology describes the diversity of immigrant populations and immigrant neighborhoods across the urban U.S
Boomburbs: The Rise of America’s Accidental Cities by Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. Lefurgy
Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia: Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore
Just as the nation witnessed the widespread decay of urban centers, there is a mounting suburban crisis in first-tier suburbs - the early suburbs to develop in metropolitan America. These places, once
The Political History of a Postwar Suburban Society Revisited
There is a vast multidisciplinary literature on U.S. suburbs. Through an urban historical lens, this article charts the public policies that gave way to the rise of a suburban society. It explores the evolution of scholarly historical thought on the roles that political processes and public policies played in the development of the suburban landscape. Major political and social movements, including the areas of housing, transportation, and race r…
The Quest to Confront Suburban Decline: Political Realities and Lessons
The social and economic decline of first-tier suburbs has emerged as an important issue in metropolitan America, yet little is known about the political and policy responses to this problem. An analysis of Baltimore County demonstrates that the local government was able to implement revitalization projects from 1995 to 2005 since it had jurisdiction over its first-tier suburbs. Characteristics such as a large population in both first-tier and out…
The Fate of Inner Suburbs: Evidence From Metropolitan Baltimore
This paper analyzes the transformation of Baltimore's inner suburbs from 1980 to 2000. After developing a geographic definition of inner suburbs, we then spatially analyze them using census place-level data. The analysis shows evidence of socioeconomic decline in Baltimore's inner suburbs, but the extent of this decline varies among these suburbs. Since 1980, many declining inner suburbs had difficulty attracting new residents, White flight was t…
The Decline of Inner Suburbs: The New Suburban Gothic in the United States
In this article, we critically examine transformation and decline in US suburbs. We identify four distinct, chronological phases of development: suburban utopias, suburban conformity, suburban diversity, and suburban dichotomy. An element of this new suburban dichotomy is what we term suburban gothic. We theorize that the forces of an aging housing stock, land-use planning, and deindustrialization contribute to the divergent realities of US subur…
Megalopolis 50 Years On: The Transformation of a City Region
This article examines Megalopolis 50 years after Gottmann's seminal study of the most urbanized region of the US Eastern Seaboard. His study provides an invaluable datum point, and we use it as a benchmark for reexamining the socio-spatial transformations of a city region. After redefining Megalopolis and showing major aggregate trends since 1950, we analyze 39 selected variables for place level census data for 2,353 places to perform a principal…
The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model
This paper critically evaluates the traditional metropolitan model of an urban core and a homogeneous suburban ring. Using place data from the US Bureau of the Census from 1980 to 2000, it examines 1639 suburbs from a sample of 13 metropolitan areas in the US. Poor, manufacturing, Black and immigrant suburbs are identified to show that metropolitan areas are less a simple dichotomous structure and more a mosaic of very diverse suburban places. Th…
The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model
This paper critically evaluates the traditional metropolitan model of an urban core and a homogeneous suburban ring. Using place data from the US Bureau of the Census from 1980 to 2000, it examines 1639 suburbs from a sample of 13 metropolitan areas in the US. Poor, manufacturing, Black and immigrant suburbs are identified to show that metropolitan areas are less a simple dichotomous structure and more a mosaic of very diverse suburban places. Th…
The Decline of Inner Suburbs: The New Suburban Gothic in the United States
In this article, we critically examine transformation and decline in US suburbs. We identify four distinct, chronological phases of development: suburban utopias, suburban conformity, suburban diversity, and suburban dichotomy. An element of this new suburban dichotomy is what we term suburban gothic. We theorize that the forces of an aging housing stock, land-use planning, and deindustrialization contribute to the divergent realities of US subur…
The Quest to Confront Suburban Decline: Political Realities and Lessons
The social and economic decline of first-tier suburbs has emerged as an important issue in metropolitan America, yet little is known about the political and policy responses to this problem. An analysis of Baltimore County demonstrates that the local government was able to implement revitalization projects from 1995 to 2005 since it had jurisdiction over its first-tier suburbs. Characteristics such as a large population in both first-tier and out…
The Fate of Inner Suburbs: Evidence From Metropolitan Baltimore
This paper analyzes the transformation of Baltimore's inner suburbs from 1980 to 2000. After developing a geographic definition of inner suburbs, we then spatially analyze them using census place-level data. The analysis shows evidence of socioeconomic decline in Baltimore's inner suburbs, but the extent of this decline varies among these suburbs. Since 1980, many declining inner suburbs had difficulty attracting new residents, White flight was t…
The politics of contested urban space: The 2013 protest movement in Brazil
In June 2013, Brazil witnessed one of its largest protest movements in history when more than 1 million Brazilians marched on city streets to demand improvements to urban life. As the epicenters of protests, cities have become an important location for examining the demands, politics, and social change strategies of contemporary citizenship. In this article, we analyze the evolution of Brazil’s protest movement. Based on participant observation, …
Megalopolis 50 Years On: The Transformation of a City Region
This article examines Megalopolis 50 years after Gottmann's seminal study of the most urbanized region of the US Eastern Seaboard. His study provides an invaluable datum point, and we use it as a benchmark for reexamining the socio-spatial transformations of a city region. After redefining Megalopolis and showing major aggregate trends since 1950, we analyze 39 selected variables for place level census data for 2,353 places to perform a principal…
A Typology of Urban Immigrant Neighborhoods
Using census data from 2000, the authors examine differentiation among urban immigrant neighborhoods in a sample of U.S. metropolitan areas. They use principal components analysis (PCA) followed by cluster analysis to identify four types of urban immigrant neighborhoods: Hispanic, White Working Class, Asian, and Gentrified. This typology describes the diversity of immigrant populations and immigrant neighborhoods across the urban U.S
The Evolution of Authoritarianism and Restrictionism in Brazilian Immigration Policy: Jair Bolsonaro in Historical Perspective
Research on immigration politics has been focused on countries of the Global North. Latin America is often discussed only as a migrant-sending region. This study offers a comparative-historical analysis of Brazilian immigration policy from national independence to the present day. Based on archival research and synthesis of multiple documentation sources, the study finds an affinity between authoritarian politics and immigration restrictionism in…
Breaking the city: Militarization and segregation in Rio de Janeiro
Confronting chronic shocks: Social resilience in Rio de Janeiro's poor neighborhoods
While much of the literature on social resilience is concerned with how cities overcome “shocks” to the urban system, much less is known about the strategies of survival and adaptation among its poorest residents. We argue that residents in poor, often informal, neighborhoods are faced with chronic shocks, or constantly recurring disasters, such as floods, severe illness, or violent police invasions. In this paper, we draw on focus groups, partic…
The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model
This paper critically evaluates the traditional metropolitan model of an urban core and a homogeneous suburban ring. Using place data from the US Bureau of the Census from 1980 to 2000, it examines 1639 suburbs from a sample of 13 metropolitan areas in the US. Poor, manufacturing, Black and immigrant suburbs are identified to show that metropolitan areas are less a simple dichotomous structure and more a mosaic of very diverse suburban places. Th…
The Fate of Inner Suburbs: Evidence From Metropolitan Baltimore
This paper analyzes the transformation of Baltimore's inner suburbs from 1980 to 2000. After developing a geographic definition of inner suburbs, we then spatially analyze them using census place-level data. The analysis shows evidence of socioeconomic decline in Baltimore's inner suburbs, but the extent of this decline varies among these suburbs. Since 1980, many declining inner suburbs had difficulty attracting new residents, White flight was t…
The Decline of Inner Suburbs: The New Suburban Gothic in the United States
In this article, we critically examine transformation and decline in US suburbs. We identify four distinct, chronological phases of development: suburban utopias, suburban conformity, suburban diversity, and suburban dichotomy. An element of this new suburban dichotomy is what we term suburban gothic. We theorize that the forces of an aging housing stock, land-use planning, and deindustrialization contribute to the divergent realities of US subur…
Megalopolis 50 Years On: The Transformation of a City Region
This article examines Megalopolis 50 years after Gottmann's seminal study of the most urbanized region of the US Eastern Seaboard. His study provides an invaluable datum point, and we use it as a benchmark for reexamining the socio-spatial transformations of a city region. After redefining Megalopolis and showing major aggregate trends since 1950, we analyze 39 selected variables for place level census data for 2,353 places to perform a principal…
Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia: Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore
Just as the nation witnessed the widespread decay of urban centers, there is a mounting suburban crisis in first-tier suburbs - the early suburbs to develop in metropolitan America. These places, once
The Political History of a Postwar Suburban Society Revisited
There is a vast multidisciplinary literature on U.S. suburbs. Through an urban historical lens, this article charts the public policies that gave way to the rise of a suburban society. It explores the evolution of scholarly historical thought on the roles that political processes and public policies played in the development of the suburban landscape. Major political and social movements, including the areas of housing, transportation, and race r…
The Quest to Confront Suburban Decline: Political Realities and Lessons
The social and economic decline of first-tier suburbs has emerged as an important issue in metropolitan America, yet little is known about the political and policy responses to this problem. An analysis of Baltimore County demonstrates that the local government was able to implement revitalization projects from 1995 to 2005 since it had jurisdiction over its first-tier suburbs. Characteristics such as a large population in both first-tier and out…
Boomburbs: The Rise of America’s Accidental Cities by Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. Lefurgy
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects: Volume 3 – Edited by Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial and Harold Wolman
A Typology of Urban Immigrant Neighborhoods
Using census data from 2000, the authors examine differentiation among urban immigrant neighborhoods in a sample of U.S. metropolitan areas. They use principal components analysis (PCA) followed by cluster analysis to identify four types of urban immigrant neighborhoods: Hispanic, White Working Class, Asian, and Gentrified. This typology describes the diversity of immigrant populations and immigrant neighborhoods across the urban U.S
Vote Thieves: Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections by Orlando J. Rodriguez
Journal Article Vote Thieves: Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections by Orlando J. Rodriguez Get access Vote Thieves: Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections by Orlando J. Rodriguez. Dulles, VA, Potomac Books, 2011. 192 pp. $26.95. Thomas J. Vicino Thomas J. Vicino Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 127,…
Waterfront politics: Revisiting the case of Camden, New Jersey’s redevelopment
The public policy responses to the enduring socioeconomic struggles of the urban core have dominated public discourse in postwar cities in the United States. Policy-makers have pursued numerous strategies to respond to the conditions of decline. Waterfront redevelopment is one of most common strategies to address these issues, although the benefits rarely extend beyond the core. In a case study of waterfront redevelopment in Camden, New Jersey, w…
Global Migration: The Basics
Migration is a politically sensitive topic and an important aspect of contentious debates about social and cultural diversity, economic stability, terrorism, globalization, and nationalism. Global Migration: The Basics examines: history and geography of global migration the role of migrants in society impact of migrants on the economy and the political system policy challenges that need to be faced in confronting a rapidly changing world economy …
Henry Ford’s plan for the American suburb: Dearborn and Detroit
In Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb, Heather Barrow examines the role that industrialist Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company played in building the American suburb of Dearborn. Located t
Breaking the city: Militarization and segregation in Rio de Janeiro
The politics of contested urban space: The 2013 protest movement in Brazil
In June 2013, Brazil witnessed one of its largest protest movements in history when more than 1 million Brazilians marched on city streets to demand improvements to urban life. As the epicenters of protests, cities have become an important location for examining the demands, politics, and social change strategies of contemporary citizenship. In this article, we analyze the evolution of Brazil’s protest movement. Based on participant observation, …
The new Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Region Since the 1960s
Since their founding, the globalization of cities and their suburbs has transformed the socio-spatial structures and political processes of metropolitan areas. Cities, and increasingly their suburb
The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs
Confronting chronic shocks: Social resilience in Rio de Janeiro's poor neighborhoods
While much of the literature on social resilience is concerned with how cities overcome “shocks” to the urban system, much less is known about the strategies of survival and adaptation among its poorest residents. We argue that residents in poor, often informal, neighborhoods are faced with chronic shocks, or constantly recurring disasters, such as floods, severe illness, or violent police invasions. In this paper, we draw on focus groups, partic…
The Evolution of Authoritarianism and Restrictionism in Brazilian Immigration Policy: Jair Bolsonaro in Historical Perspective
Research on immigration politics has been focused on countries of the Global North. Latin America is often discussed only as a migrant-sending region. This study offers a comparative-historical analysis of Brazilian immigration policy from national independence to the present day. Based on archival research and synthesis of multiple documentation sources, the study finds an affinity between authoritarian politics and immigration restrictionism in…
Urban Crises and the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Analytical Framework for Metropolitan Resiliency
Social scientists of the urban condition have long been interested in the causes and consequences of the phenomena that shape the growth and decline of cities and their suburbs. Such interests have become increasingly relevant in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Over the course of the pandemic, many academic and popular analyses have confronted two essential questions: How has the pandemic changed the city? And given these changes, are they perman…
The Resilient Metropolis: Planning in an Era of Decentralization
This thematic issue of Urban Planning focuses on recent transformations of the built environment, the economy, and society around the world. The articles examine how planning processes and policy responses can adapt to the transformation of metropolitan areas in the pursuit of a more just and resilient society. Key themes are centered on socio-spatial processes that drive the uneven growth, the economic globalization of cities and the pursuant hu…
The Politics of Studentification: An Analysis of the Student Housing Debate in Boston
Recent popular and scholarly work has drawn attention to the relationship between universities and urban housing markets. Universities play a critical role in the post-industrial urban economy and have many impacts beyond their campus. This paper focuses on the policy debates to expand housing for students with the intention of relieving pressure in the rental housing market in cities that are home to many higher education institutions and their …
In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb
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