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William W Goldsmith

Professor

Research Focus

  • United States Urban Policy
  • Political Economy: race and class
  • International Urbanization
  • Development and Underdevelopment
  • Latin America and the Caribbean

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1968
  • B.S.C.E., University of California, Berkeley, 1963

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • Schools in the City: Good Planning vs. Injuries of Class, Race, and Place - Draft
  • Suburbs Still Sabatoge Cities - Draft
  • The Invisible City of Color, or 'I Thought This Was a Course on Writing!' Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell, ed., Jonathan Monroe, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
  • Political Economy (with Christopher Gunn), entry in the Encyclopedia of Community, Sage, 2003.
  • Urban Responses to the Lost Decades: Insights from Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and the United States (with Priscilla Connolly and Alan Mabin), Landlines 15, 2, April 2003.
  • Boss Nova In Brazil (with Abdurazack Karriem and Hannah Wittman), Bookpress 12, 8, December 2002.
  • Levelling the Field: City Realities versus Anti-Urban Myths, Planners Network, September/December 2001 and winter 2002.
  • Participatory Budgeting and Power Politics in Porto Alegre (with Carlos B. Vainer), Landlines 13, 1, January 2001. Also in Revista EURE 27, 82, December 2001 (Santiago, Chile).