Contents: Introduction, Katrin B. Anacker. Section I Suburban Poverty: The resurgence of concentrated poverty in America: metropolitan trends in the 2000s, Elizabeth Kneebone and Carey Anne Nadeau; Debunking the 'cookie-cutter' myth for suburban places and suburban poverty: analyzing their variety and recent trends, Karen Beck Pooley. Section II Racial, Ethnic, and Nativist Change: The Washington, DC Metropolitan Region - traditional no more?, Carolyn Gallaher; Local immigration legislation in two suburbs: an examination of immigration policies in Farmers Branch, Texas, and Carpentersville, Illinois, Bernadette Hanlon and Thomas J. Vicino. Section III Suburban Decline - Or Not?: Beyond sprawl: social sustainability and reinvestment in the Baltimore suburbs, Bernadette Hanlon; Metropolitan growth patterns and inner-ring suburban decline: a longitudinal analysis of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, Sugie Lee, Nancey Green Leigh and Andrew McMillan.

Section IV Suburban Foreclosures: Responses to foreclosure and abandonment in Cleveland's inner suburbs: three case studies, W. Dennis Keating; Punctuated equilibrium: community responses to neoliberalism in three suburban communities in Baltimore County, Maryland, Gregory Smithsimon. Section V Suburban Policy: Revitalizing distressed older suburbs: case studies in Alabama, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, Kathryn W. Hexter, Edward W. (Ned) Hill, Benjamin Y. Clark, Brian A. Mikelbank and Charles Post; The response of the nonprofit safety net to rising suburban poverty, Benjamin J. Roth and Scott W.

Allard. Index.