Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction by Marc Silver and Martin Melkonian Political Issues in the Suburban Context The Politics of the Regional Environment by Barry Commoner The Politics of Full Employment: Its Impact on City and Suburbs by Phillip Harvey Suburban Housing: Toward an Alternative Agenda by Marc Silver Race, Ethnicity and Politics Na Hu'a Haole: Suburbia as a Cultural Imposition by Mehmed Ali and Nahua Patrinos Racial Cleansing in the Suburbs: Suburban Government, Urban Renewal and Segregation, 1945-1960: The Case of Long Island, New York by Andrew Wiese Race and the Origins of Zoning in the Chicago Suburbs by Jonathan L. Entin A Better Home in a Nice Neighborhood: Housing, Race, and Residential Conflict by A. Scott Henderson Citizen Participation and the Political Arena Politics and Power in Suburban New Jersey: The Case of Bergenfield, 1935-1972 by Michael J. Birkner Politics and Ideology in a Metropolitan Suburb by Paul H. Mattingly Public Participation in the Emerging Suburb of Colchester, Vermont: An Observation by William G. MacLeay Patterns of Citizen Participation in Edge and Central Cities by Carmine Scavo Planning, Issues, and Policies Public Discourse: Property Rights, Public Good and NIMBY by JoAnne Myers Bringing Power to the People--Siting the Skunkworks by Frank Burggraf Determinants of Attitudes on School Funding Reform Ideas: Evidence from Suburban Long Island by Michael Mintrom Legislative Reorganization in Nassau County, New York by Edward J. Smits The Public Engages in 'Risk Assessment:' The Demise of Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island, New York by Marge Harrison The Politics of Housing and Zoning Policy Suburban Visions and the Landscape of Power: Public Housing, Suburban Diversity, and Participation in Metropolitan Baltimore, 1930s-1950s by Peter H. Henderson The Politics of Housing in the New York Metropolitan Region by John T. Metzger The Legislative Aftermath of Britton v. Town of Chester: Exclusionary Zoning in New Hampshire by Susan J. Siggelakis The War Against the Housing of the Minority Poor: White Plains, New York by Ellen Skinner Index