Presents a study of the causes leading to the adoption of commission and managerial administrative structures and their subsequent abandonment by 267 of America's largest cities during the period 1900-1942. Event-history methods of analysis are used. (Author/AM)

Discusses a study which measured responses to anomie scales across black neighborhoods. Findings indicate that American black urban ghettos include a great variety of subculturally distinct residential areas. Concludes that the most crucial variables are those which determine the relationship between neighborhoods and the citypower structure.…

Neighborhood organizations in Seattle (Washington) were more concerned with political issues and less with socializing in 1979 than in 1929. However, earlier characterizations of neighborhoods as natural communities have overstated the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and understated the political role they played. (Author/IS)

Despite beliefs that race is declining in importance within U.S. society, analysis of census data from the southwestern United States indicates continuing residential segregation, even for higher income Blacks. Higher income Hispanics found it easier to leave segregated neighborhoods because Anglos were much less likely to move when Hispanics…