This second edition of The Urban Experience is a revised, expanded and updated version of a textbook introducing readers to some of the major ways of understanding the policy dynamics of metropolitan areas, those located in the United States in particular...The book clearly targets advanced undergraduates with a general social-scientific background.
Barry Bluestone is the Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor Emeritus of Political Economy; Founding Director of the Dukakis Center; Founding Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University.
Mary Huff Stevenson is a Professor of Economics Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Russell E. Williams is an Associate Professor of Economics at Wheaton College.