Preface. Urban political development and the politics of ideas / Robert Henry Cox and Daniel Béland
Chapter 1. Ideas, interests, institutions, and urban political development / Richardson Dilworth and Timothy P. R. Weaver
Chapter 2. How policy paradigms change : lessons from Chicago's urban renewal program / Joel Rast
Chapter 3. The idea of blight in Baltimore / Sally Ford Lawton
Chapter 4. How ideas stopped an expressway in Philadelphia / Marcus Anthony Hunter
Chapter 5. Manufacturing decline : the conservative construction of urban crisis in Detroit / Jason Hackworth
Chapter 6. The neoliberal city and the racial idea / Lester K. Spence
Chapter 7. Contested conceptions of pluralism between cities and Congress over national civil rights legislation / Thomas Ogorzalek
Chapter 8. Ideas in US education policy : reform, localism, and immigrant youths / Douglas S. Reed
Chapter 9. Ideas, institutions, intercurrence, and the Community Reinvestment Act / Amy Widestrom
Chapter 10. Immigrant identities and integration in the United States and Canada / Mara Sidney
Chapter 11. "Trying out our ideas" : enterprise zones in the United States and the United Kingdom / Timothy P. R. Weaver
Chapter 12. Ideas, framing, and interests in urban contention : the case of Santiago, Chile / Eleonora Pasotti
Chapter 13. Ideas, politics, and urban development in China / William Hurst
Chapter 14. Politics of dwelling : divergent ideas of home in Kolkata / Debjani Bhattacharyya
Chapter 15. Policy mobility and urban fantasies : the case of African cities / Vanessa Watson.
