CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

PART I SETTING AND THESIS

2. Neighborhood Effects: The Evolution of an Idea

PART II PRINCIPLES AND METHOD

3. Analytic Approach

4. The Making of the Chicago Project

PART III COMMUNITY-LEVEL PROCESSES

5. Legacies of Inequality

6. “Broken Windows” and the Meanings of Disorder

7. The Theory of Collective Efficacy

8. Civic Society and the Organizational Imperative

9. Social Altruism, Cynicism, and the “Good Community”

PART IV INTERLOCKING STRUCTURES

10. Spatial Logic; or, Why Neighbors of Neighborhoods Matter

11. Trading Places: Experiments and Neighborhood Effects in a Social World

12. Individual Selection as a Social Process

13. Network Mechanisms of Interneighborhood Migration

14. Leadership and the Higher-Order Structure of Elite Connections

PART V SYNTHESIS AND REVISIT

15. Neighborhood Effects and a Theory of Context

16. Aftermath—Chicago 2010

17. The Twenty-First-Century Gold Coast and Slum