New York and Los Angeles

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
The New York and Los Angeles Schools
David Halle
PART I: Overview
ONE: Race and Class in the Developing New York and Los Angeles Metropolises, 1940-2000
Andrew A. Beveridge and Susan Weber
TWO: The New York and Los Angeles Economies
David L. Gladstone and Susan S. Fainstein
THREE: From "Give Me Your Poor" to "Save Our State"
NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES AS IMMIGRANT CITIES AND REGIONS
Georges Sabagh and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
FOUR: A Tale of Two Metropolises
NEW IMMIGRANT CHINESE COMMUNITIES IN NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES
Min Zhou and Rebecca Kim
FIVE: Residential Separation and Segregation, Racial and Latino Identity, and the Racial Composition of Each City
David Halle, Robert Gedeon, and Andrew Beveridge
PART II: Social and Urban Problems-Crime, Education, and Poverty
SIX: Metropolitan Crime Myths
Jack Katz
SEVEN: Centralization versus Fragmentation
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS OF NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES
Julia Wrigley
EIGHT: It Did Happen Here
THE RISE IN WORKING POVERTY IN NEW YORK CITY
Mark Levitan
NINE: The Local Welfare State in Transition
WELFARE REFORM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Geoffrey DeVerteuil, Heidi Sommer, Jennifer Wolch, and Lois Takahashi
PART III: Politics, Power, and Conflict
TEN: Gotham on Our Minds
NEW YORK CITY IN THE LOS ANGELES CHARTER REFORM OF 1996-1999
Raphael J. Sonenshein
ELEVEN:: The Mayoral Politics of New York and Los Angeles
Karen M. Kaufmann
TWELVE: Riots in New York and Los Angeles
1935-2001
David Halle and Kevin Rafter
THIRTEEN: Black-White Conflict
A MODEL FOR THE FUTURE OF ETHNIC POLITICS IN LOS ANGELES?
David O. Sears
PART IV: Culture
FOURTEEN: Hot and Cold
SOME CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE VISUAL ART WORLDS OF NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES
András Szántó
FIFTEEN: "Hollywood Is a State of Mind"
NEW YORK FILM CULTURE AND THE LURE OF LOS ANGELES FROM 1930 TO THE PRESENT
Saverio Giovacchini
Conclusion
David Halle
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX