Anne B Shlay
Biographic Data
| ID | 244174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne B Shlay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne B |
| FAMILY NAME | Shlay |
| SIGNATURE | SHLAY A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 332 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The dream revisited
The quest to understand the dynamics of race and place is central to urban studies. The study of urban segregation began early. The Chicago School focused on what they saw as the voluntary construc
Trajectories of conflict and peace
Scott Bollens, urban planning and policy scholar, tackles two of the most stubborn conflicts in the Western world: one between Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem and the other between Catholics and
The Strength of Strong Ties Reconsidered
Widespread gentrification has increasingly been accompanied by community-based conflicts between newer and long-established residents. These conflicts raise questions about the strategies long-time residents can use to resist displacement and neighborhood change. This article examines a conflict in Fishtown, a gentrifying Philadelphia neighborhood, over plans to build a casino in the community. It looks at the role of strong community ties based …
Space and pluralism
Spaces and Pluralism is a tough read that speaks to issues that have plagued humanity for centuries but have intensified in recent years. It asks, “Can contemporary cities be places of tolerance?”
Urban Sociology
Gentrification and the Right to the City
Henri Lefebvre’s right to the city concept is increasingly used to challenge the development prerogatives associated with neoliberal development. These challenges are more common as gentrification becomes a global urban strategy. This article is an empirical investigation that examines competing claims to community legitimacy and authenticity in a conflict over gentrification in a Philadelphia neighborhood. This conflict emerged in Fishtown when …
Life and Liberty in the Pursuit of Housing
The recent housing crisis's devastating effects on U.S. households’ economic situations provides reason to examine the risks, pitfalls and assumptions underlying contemporary housing policy. This paper examines issues associated with renting and owning housing in America. It argues that housing operates as (1) a dimension of the U.S. system of stratification, (2) a method for the unfair distribution of resources in metropolitan space, and (3) a m…
Whose Right toJerusalem
Jerusalem is a city mired in spatial conflict. Its contested spaces represent deep conflicts among groups that vary by national identity, religion, religiosity and gender. The omnipresent nature of these conflicts provides an opportunity to look at HenriLefebvre's concept of the right to the city (RTC). TheRTChas been adopted and celebrated as a political tool for positive change, enabling communities to take control of space. Based on extensive …
Making Place
This paper is about place making in Jerusalem, an important city at the heart of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. It examines how place making in Jerusalem has had the consequence of shifting what is known as the Green Line. the Green Line represents the armistice or ceasefire boundaries following the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Development of different parts of captured territories after the 1967 War has shifted and rendered unstable perc…
Child care subsidies post Tanf
African American, White and Hispanic child care preferences
Segregation
Research for Democracy
Urban scholarship has focused on the role of power and politics in fostering uneven development, showing that urban patterns are not inevitable but controllable. Yet shifting power from one group to another is easier said than done. How may community organizations acquire leverage that permits them to alter political decision making around space and urban development? This article describes a collaboration in Philadelphia between a citywide faith…
Low-income Homeownership
This paper is a critical analysis of recent US policy to promote low-income homeownership. It examines the ideology and assumptions buttressing this policy, evidence on the effects of low-income homeownership and the viability of homeownership as a strategy for low-income families. Evidence suggests that the prospect for sustained growth in low-income homeownership may be limited. Research does not provide uniform support for it as a tool for ass…
A Right to Housing
Subsidizing child care
Teasing apart the child care conundrum
Product Review
Barriers to subsidies
Urban Inequality
Influencing the Agents of Urban Structure
From the perspective of applied research, a critical urban theory presents the opportunity to become a force for social change. Nowhere has this perspective been more present than in activities around supporting the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The author applies evidence from an evaluation of the impact of CRA organizing to assess the success of efforts to bring about institutional change. This research suggests that local organizing provid…
Capital and Communities in Black and White
Running on Empty
Homelessness is a manifestation of acute poverty accompanied by long-tenn unemployment, deficient human capital, problems with substance abuse, inadequate welfare benefits, and other vulnerabilities. Homeless people have problems that require sustained intervention strategies that will permit them the opportunity to enter the labor market, maintain pemzanent housing, remain healthy and functional, and take care of their families. To this end, mor…
Social Science Research and Contemporary Studies of Homelessness
This review takes stock of contemporary social science research on homelessness. Research on homelessness in the 1980s has been prompted by the increased numbers and visibility of homeless persons including men, women, and families, as well as young people without families. Most empirical research employs a working definition of homelessness as the condition of those people who are without a permanent place to live. However, a wide range in persp…
Race and Lending
Low-income Homeownership
This paper is a critical analysis of recent US policy to promote low-income homeownership. It examines the ideology and assumptions buttressing this policy, evidence on the effects of low-income homeownership and the viability of homeownership as a strategy for low-income families. Evidence suggests that the prospect for sustained growth in low-income homeownership may be limited. Research does not provide uniform support for it as a tool for ass…
Keeping up the Neighborhood
Barriers to subsidies
Making Place
This paper is about place making in Jerusalem, an important city at the heart of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. It examines how place making in Jerusalem has had the consequence of shifting what is known as the Green Line. the Green Line represents the armistice or ceasefire boundaries following the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Development of different parts of captured territories after the 1967 War has shifted and rendered unstable perc…
Gentrification and the Right to the City
Henri Lefebvre’s right to the city concept is increasingly used to challenge the development prerogatives associated with neoliberal development. These challenges are more common as gentrification becomes a global urban strategy. This article is an empirical investigation that examines competing claims to community legitimacy and authenticity in a conflict over gentrification in a Philadelphia neighborhood. This conflict emerged in Fishtown when …
Residential Mobility and Public Policy Issues
Early twentieth century concerns with social problems and pathologies perceived as stemming from rural to urban migration, neighborhood transiency and an absence of spatially stable communities fueled the early study of residential mobility. Knowing why people moved, it seemed, presented a potential for fostering neighborhood stability, place oriented community and a cure for urban ills such as crime, delinquency and other forms of anomic behavio…
Teasing apart the child care conundrum
Not in that neighborhood
Research for Democracy
Urban scholarship has focused on the role of power and politics in fostering uneven development, showing that urban patterns are not inevitable but controllable. Yet shifting power from one group to another is easier said than done. How may community organizations acquire leverage that permits them to alter political decision making around space and urban development? This article describes a collaboration in Philadelphia between a citywide faith…
Subsidizing child care
African American, White and Hispanic child care preferences
Whose Right toJerusalem
Jerusalem is a city mired in spatial conflict. Its contested spaces represent deep conflicts among groups that vary by national identity, religion, religiosity and gender. The omnipresent nature of these conflicts provides an opportunity to look at HenriLefebvre's concept of the right to the city (RTC). TheRTChas been adopted and celebrated as a political tool for positive change, enabling communities to take control of space. Based on extensive …
Life and Liberty in the Pursuit of Housing
The recent housing crisis's devastating effects on U.S. households’ economic situations provides reason to examine the risks, pitfalls and assumptions underlying contemporary housing policy. This paper examines issues associated with renting and owning housing in America. It argues that housing operates as (1) a dimension of the U.S. system of stratification, (2) a method for the unfair distribution of resources in metropolitan space, and (3) a m…
Influencing the Agents of Urban Structure
From the perspective of applied research, a critical urban theory presents the opportunity to become a force for social change. Nowhere has this perspective been more present than in activities around supporting the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The author applies evidence from an evaluation of the impact of CRA organizing to assess the success of efforts to bring about institutional change. This research suggests that local organizing provid…
Financing Community
Many urban areas in the 1980s have witnessed the revitalization of a community reinvestment movement, one directed at encouraging private financial institutions to make loans in low and moderate income communities and particularly in minority communities. Research has played a strong role in promoting reinvestment efforts by documenting metropolitan housing finance patterns. Accompanying the growth of community reinvestment activity will be expan…
The Social Organization of a Land-Based Elite
Growth machine theorists argue that metropolitan development patterns represent the concerted activities of powerful growth coalitions who manipulate public agendas and guide local development, devoid of public accountability. This article investigates the organization and activities of the Chicago growth coalition which promoted a large development project—the 1992 World’s Fair. Using interlocking directorates, it examines the corporate and inst…
Child care subsidies post Tanf
A Right to Housing
Taking Apart the American Dream
Americans' overwhelming desires for single family homeownership have been so well documented that they have been termed the 'American Dream'. Government and financial incentives for homeownership are believed to allow the fulfillment of uniformly accepted housing norms which drive people to buy their own homes. This research takes apart that American Dream by examining the preferences of different income and family life cycle groups for housing a…
The Strength of Strong Ties Reconsidered
Widespread gentrification has increasingly been accompanied by community-based conflicts between newer and long-established residents. These conflicts raise questions about the strategies long-time residents can use to resist displacement and neighborhood change. This article examines a conflict in Fishtown, a gentrifying Philadelphia neighborhood, over plans to build a casino in the community. It looks at the role of strong community ties based …
The Building of a Tentants Protest Organizaiton
Tenants' abilities to influence changes in their housing costs and conditions are constrained by their lack of political and economic power. Control over tenants' housing belongs to the property owners who suspend temporary use of their holdings in return for financial compensation. Tenants do not have the economic resources to own and hence, control their housing and are often politically weak because of tenant transiency and the absence of sust…
The Sociology of Welfare
Keeping up the Neighborhood
Residential Mobility and Public Policy Issues
Early twentieth century concerns with social problems and pathologies perceived as stemming from rural to urban migration, neighborhood transiency and an absence of spatially stable communities fueled the early study of residential mobility. Knowing why people moved, it seemed, presented a potential for fostering neighborhood stability, place oriented community and a cure for urban ills such as crime, delinquency and other forms of anomic behavio…
Regulating Scarcity
This paper explores the dynamics between zoning, land values and neighborhood change from 1960 to 1970. Using a sample of 352 central city and suburban census tracts contained within the Chicago SMSA, this paper examines the influence of zoning on neighborhood land value appreciation and the independent effects of land values and zoning on neighborhood housing changes. Findings show that zoning influenced land value appreciation over the decade w…
The Building of a Tentants Protest Organizaiton
Tenants' abilities to influence changes in their housing costs and conditions are constrained by their lack of political and economic power. Control over tenants' housing belongs to the property owners who suspend temporary use of their holdings in return for financial compensation. Tenants do not have the economic resources to own and hence, control their housing and are often politically weak because of tenant transiency and the absence of sust…
Same City, Different Worlds
Studies of residential location typically have treated the household unit as an undifferentiated whole and have not accounted for divergent needs and desires between male and female household members. Using the factorial survey technique, this article examines different preferences for neighborhood characteristics between men and women, focusing on women with varying family and labor market responsibilities. Based on a sample of 177 Syracuse, New…
Taking Apart the American Dream
Americans' overwhelming desires for single family homeownership have been so well documented that they have been termed the 'American Dream'. Government and financial incentives for homeownership are believed to allow the fulfillment of uniformly accepted housing norms which drive people to buy their own homes. This research takes apart that American Dream by examining the preferences of different income and family life cycle groups for housing a…
The Social Organization of a Land-Based Elite
Growth machine theorists argue that metropolitan development patterns represent the concerted activities of powerful growth coalitions who manipulate public agendas and guide local development, devoid of public accountability. This article investigates the organization and activities of the Chicago growth coalition which promoted a large development project—the 1992 World’s Fair. Using interlocking directorates, it examines the corporate and inst…
The Changing Downtown
Not in that neighborhood
Financing Community
Many urban areas in the 1980s have witnessed the revitalization of a community reinvestment movement, one directed at encouraging private financial institutions to make loans in low and moderate income communities and particularly in minority communities. Research has played a strong role in promoting reinvestment efforts by documenting metropolitan housing finance patterns. Accompanying the growth of community reinvestment activity will be expan…
Social Science Research and Contemporary Studies of Homelessness
This review takes stock of contemporary social science research on homelessness. Research on homelessness in the 1980s has been prompted by the increased numbers and visibility of homeless persons including men, women, and families, as well as young people without families. Most empirical research employs a working definition of homelessness as the condition of those people who are without a permanent place to live. However, a wide range in persp…
Race and Lending
Racial Barriers to Credit
Running on Empty
Homelessness is a manifestation of acute poverty accompanied by long-tenn unemployment, deficient human capital, problems with substance abuse, inadequate welfare benefits, and other vulnerabilities. Homeless people have problems that require sustained intervention strategies that will permit them the opportunity to enter the labor market, maintain pemzanent housing, remain healthy and functional, and take care of their families. To this end, mor…
Capital and Communities in Black and White
Influencing the Agents of Urban Structure
From the perspective of applied research, a critical urban theory presents the opportunity to become a force for social change. Nowhere has this perspective been more present than in activities around supporting the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The author applies evidence from an evaluation of the impact of CRA organizing to assess the success of efforts to bring about institutional change. This research suggests that local organizing provid…
Urban Inequality
Product Review
Barriers to subsidies
Subsidizing child care
Teasing apart the child care conundrum
Research for Democracy
Urban scholarship has focused on the role of power and politics in fostering uneven development, showing that urban patterns are not inevitable but controllable. Yet shifting power from one group to another is easier said than done. How may community organizations acquire leverage that permits them to alter political decision making around space and urban development? This article describes a collaboration in Philadelphia between a citywide faith…
Low-income Homeownership
This paper is a critical analysis of recent US policy to promote low-income homeownership. It examines the ideology and assumptions buttressing this policy, evidence on the effects of low-income homeownership and the viability of homeownership as a strategy for low-income families. Evidence suggests that the prospect for sustained growth in low-income homeownership may be limited. Research does not provide uniform support for it as a tool for ass…
A Right to Housing
Economics (23 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Political science (20 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Housing Market and Economics (10 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (10 works)