Market Cities, People Cities

“Emerson and Smiley have a fresh approach. They make a real distinction in how cities operate: what citizenship and welfare mean, what infrastructure means, and how environmental crisis can be addressed. They also are doing something excellent in bringing up social democracies and using them as a tool for pointing forward and gaining broader understanding. It’s about time we paid attention to social democracies…This book takes it to the urban front.” - Harvey Molotch,Author of Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways and Other Sites of Ambiguous Dan “Market Cities, People Cities completely changes our vocabulary about how cities evolve. Michael O. Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley give urban decision makers a new way to understand their cities and shape their policies to create the kind of city that is right for their citys residents.” - William Fulton,Author of Talk City: A Chronicle of Political Life in an All-American Town

Michael Oluf Emerson is Provost and Professor of Urban Studies at North Park University in Chicago, and a Kinder Fellow at Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research. He has authored or co-authored fifteen books, including Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, Transcending Racial Barriers, and Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations (NYU Press, 2005).

Kevin T. Smiley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Buffalo.