ABSTRACT
In many cities, downtowns have experienced major reinvestment and previously disinvested neighborhoods in the urban core have gentrified. In many other neighborhoods, residents continue to live in depressed areas. Some impoverished neighborhoods are isolated in the suburbs and others persist adjacent to their gentrifying urban counterparts. Public intervention through neighborhood revitalization programs is necessary because of this perpetual cycle of uneven development and the reproduction of unequal opportunity.
