Bedford-Stuyvesant : beginnings -- Walnut Hills, Jamaica Plain, and other neighborhoods -- Pilot Small's Airport and RKO Keith's Balcony : sprawl and race -- The sprawl machine -- The poverty machine -- The deficit machine -- Portland, Oregon : taming urban sprawl -- Montgomery County, Maryland : mixing up the neighborhood -- Dayton Ohio's ED/GE : the rewards (and limits) of voluntary agreements -- Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota : the winning coalition -- Changing federal public housing policies -- Building regional coalitions -- Changing attitudes, changing laws.