Integrating urban design and educational reform in the post- industrial American city: Paterson, New Jersey, as a City of Learning

Post-industrial cities and their public school systems are two of the greatest domestic challenges facing the United States. Often the dysfunction of these cities and their schools is related: students from deficient urban systems inhibit community and economic development; depressed urban economies reduce local tax revenues that can be used to improve schools. Together, cities and schools enter into a downward spiral.