Forging metropolitan inequality. The state policies that define localism, public schools, and fragmentation in the suburbs ; Chicago's postwar development agenda: using schools, land-use tools, and public subsidies to protect white property
Fighting over metropolitan inequality. Fighting Chicago school segregation: the battles to define Northern segregation, government responsibility, and public priorities ; Varieties of school desegregation: defining state responsibility and protecting ; White interests in the fragmented suburbs ; The fight to open the suburbs: Fair- and affordable-housing advocacy and the suburban defense of metropolitan inequality ; School-finance and property-tax reform: trying to expand state fiscal responsibility and equity in local finance
Forgetting metropolitan inequality. The policy origins and effects of fiscal crisis: taxation, austerity, and business-first economic development in Chicagoland ; From equity to measurable standards: reshaping public policy and forgetting inequality in a neoliberal age
Conclusion: what does this history mean for the present and the future.