Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.
Contents
The Rise of a Surburban Demos -- All Cries Great and Small -- Cities of Riches and Squalor -- The Civic Paradox of Racial Segregation -- A Bedroom Polis -- Boomtowns and the Civic Costs of Air-Conditioning -- Reform Governments and Their Aftermath -- Remaking the Democratic Metropolis -- The Citizen Participation / Cenus Dataset -- Logistic and OLS Regression Equations for the Figures -- Testing the Relationship between Civic Participation and "Self-Inertest Rightly Understood."