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Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Elinor Ostrom and the Debates Over Municipal Fragmentation

Christina Greer (Fordham University)

Timothy Weaver (University at Albany)

The Social Stratification-Government Inequality Thesis Explored

Elinor Ostrom (Indiana University)

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Innovation Districts: Assessing their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development

Joshua Drucker, Carla Maria Kayanan 

Can city deals improve economic performance? Evidence from England 

Jose M. M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews 

Resettled Refugees and African Americans in the Same Neighborhoods: Insights for Intergroup Dynamics and Multicultural Community Building 

Wonhyung Lee, Lindsey Disney 

Can Local Government Mergers Reduce Costs When Capital Expenditures are Low? Evidence from Court Mergers 

Sîan Mughan, Dallin Overstreet 

‘The councilors are the ones to blame’: the symbolic reproduction of territorial boundaries created by policy and planning decisions 

Marta Rodrigues Rodrigues Neves, Sara Rodrigues Rodrigues Neves 

Rising Tides or Political Ripcurrents? Gentrification and Minority Representation in 166 Cities 

Diana Da In Da In Lee, Yamil Velez 

Whose Neighborhood Needs? Assessing the Social Equity Implications of City-Level CDBG Allocations 

Eric Stokan, Michael Overton, Aaron Deslatte, Christine Zhang 

Community Benefits Through an Anchor: Contestations During the Planning of the Obama Presidential Center 

Maura Fennelly 

Experiences of policing in gentrifying neighborhoods: evidence from Chicago 

Matthew David David Nelsen, Kumar Ramanathan, Thomas Ogorzalek 

Research Notes 

What is the future of survey-based data collection for local government research? Trends, strategies, and recommendations 

Rachel Krause, S. Mohsen Fatemi, Le Anh Nguyen Long, Gwen Arnold, Sarah L. L. Hofmeyer 

Erratum 

Erratum to Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter 

Bharti Koul 

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