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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Urbanism, Infrastructure, Politics -- CHAPTER 1 Private Benefits, Public Goods -- CHAPTER 2 Independent Yonkers, Expansionist New Yor -- CHAPTER 3 Greater New York and Later Annexation Schemes -- CHAPTER 4 Expansionist Jersey City and Its Discontents -- CHAPTER 5 The Rise and Fall of Greater Newark -- Conclusion: The Evolution of Urban Politics -- Notes -- Index

Much of today's heated academic discussion about "social capital" is either theoretical in nature or revolves around national survey data, neither of which adequately explains the specific social networks that actually sustain life in cities. This is the first book about social capital that both spans a broad range of social contexts and time periods and focuses on a single city, Philadelphia. Contributors examine such subjects as voter behavior, education, neighborhood life, church participation, park advocacy, and political activism. The wide scope of the book reflects its concern for compre

The volume brings together some of the best of both the most established and the newest urban scholars in political science, sociology, and history, each of whom makes a new argument for rethinking the relationship between cities and the larger project of state-building

The volume brings together some of the best of both the most established and the newest urban scholars in political science, sociology, and history, each of whom makes a new argument for rethinking the relationship between cities and the larger project of state-building.

The first interdisciplinary work to examine "social capital" in a single city.