Todd Swanstrom is the Des Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and the co-author of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century and The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century. Austin ("A. T.") Harrison is assistant professor of Urban Studies at Rhodes College. His research interests include neighborhood change, community development and organizing, housing policy, and structural decline. His previous work has been featured in Housing Policy Debate, the Journal of Urban Affairs, Housing Studies, Metropolitics, and more. Alan Mallach, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Community Progress in Washington DC, has held positions with the Brookings Institution and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and has taught at Pratt Institute (NYC), Rutgers University, and the New Jersey School of Architecture. He is the author of The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America and many other books, articles, and applied research studies.