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626 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2009)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0626 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION The Shape of the New American City By EUGENIE L. BIRCH and SUSAN M. WACHTER Throughout the twentieth century, strong voices speaking on cities have been a hall- mark of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The words of Lillian Wald, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Martin Meyerson, Brian J. L. Berry, Ian McHarg, Margaret Mead, David Riesman, and many others echo over the decades. They have recorded how urban places have adapted to massive changes over time-major demographic shifts, wars, and huge swings in the economy. They have explored three recurring themes: urban invention/reinvention, urban governance/ management, and urban challenges, variously defined. They began in 1905 in City Life and Progress (volume 25, March 1905) and con- tinue to the present with this issue, The Shape of the New American City (volume 626, November 2009). Overcrowding, political corruption, and technological change in an urban nation were the earliest concerns of authors who had wit- nessed unprecedented city growth and wrote about associated issues in Housing and Town Planning (volume 51, January 1914), Aviation (volume 131, May 1927), and Planning for City Traffic (volume 133, September 1927). Slums, suburbanization, and urban disinvestment con- sumed scholars of the next generation. They had survived the Depression and World War II and were moving into the space age. Issues that emerged from that era included Building the Future City (volume 242, November 1945), Metropolis in Ferment (volume 314, November 1957), and Urban Revival: Goals and Standards Eugenie L. Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor |of Urban Research and Education at the University <>f Pennsylvania School of Design. She is also a co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research. Susan M. Wachter is the Richard B. Worley Professor |of Financial Management at The Wharton School, University of Pennsiania. She is also a co-director at the Penn Institute for Urban Research. DOT: 10.1177/0002716209343546 ANNALS, AAPSS, 626, November 2009 6

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