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Previous Award Winners

Annual Meeting Best Paper

Year

Author(s)

Paper Title(s)

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, 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
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"

 

Best Book Award

Year

Author

Title

Publisher

2007

Lance Freeman

There Goes the 'Hood: Views
of Gentrification
from the Ground Up

Temple University Press, 2006

2005

Robert O. Self

American Babylon:
Race and the Struggle
for Post War Oakland

Russel Sage, 1997

2003

Eric Klinenberg

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy
of Disaster in Chicago

Harvard University Press, 2000

2001

Lawrence Vale

From the Puritans to the Projects:
Public Housing
and Public Neighbors

University of Chicago Press, 2002

1999

Paul Jargowsky

Poverty and Place:
Ghettos, Barrios,
and the American City

Princeton University Press, 2003

 

Emerging Scholar Award

Year

Scholar

Institution

2008

Mike Powe

University of California, Irvine

2007

Julia Koschinsky

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2006

Keri-Nicole Dillman

New York University

2005

Kristin Good

University of Toronto

2004

Deborah Carroll

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

2003

Michelle Camou

University of Colorado

2002

Roxanne Ezzet-Lofstrom

University of California, Irvine

2001

Alvaro Cortes

Wayne State University

2000

Michael Leo Owens

Emory University

1999

James DeFilippis

Rutgers University

1998

Rachel Garshick Kleit

University of North Carolina

1997

Dale Thomson

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

 

Best Paper Published in the Journal of Urban Affairs

Year

Author(s)

Article Title

JUA Volume
and Number

2008

Scott A. Bollens

“Urban Governance
at the Nationalist Divide: Coping with Group-Based Claims”

Volume 29, Issue 3

2007

Rebecca Yang
Paul A. Jargowsky

"Suburban Development
and Economic Segregation
in the 1990's"

Volume 28, Issue 3

2006

Manuel Pastor , Jr.

“The Air is Always Cleaner
on the Other Side: Race, Space, and Ambient Air Toxic Exposures in California"

Volume 27, Issue 2

2005

Ali Modarres

"Neighborhood Integration:
Temporality and Social Fracture"

Volume 26, Issue 3

2004

Jeffrey Henig

"Privatization, Politics,
and Urban Services:
The Political Behavior
of Charter Schools"

Volume 25, Issue 1

2003

R. Allen Hays
Thomas Holyoke
Natalie Lacireno-Paquet
Michele Moser
Rachel Morello-Frosch
James L. Sadd

"Habitat for Humanity:
Building Social Capital
Through Faith Based Services"

Volume 24, Issue 3

 

Best Paper in the Fannie Mae Foundation Track

Year

Author(s)

Paper Title

2004

Elvin K. Wyly

"Has Mortgage Capital Found an Inner City Spatial Fix?"

2002

Douglas Perkins
D. Adam Long

"Neighborhood Sense of Community and Social Capital:
A Multi-level of Analysis"

 

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