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Ninth Annual USP Student Forum Featured SpeakerJohn Logan, Distinguished Professor Department of Sociology and Director, Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research University at Albany John Logan, one of the foremost political and urban sociologists of the last twenty years, has written and published widely on topics of concern to urbanists. In 1987, he published with Harvey Molotch Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place, a book that quickly and permanently transformed the study of urban politics. In Urban Fortunes, Logan and Molotch developed the concept of the "growth machine" as a basis for studying urban political economy, a conceptual advance that continues to shape urban studies. Since the late 1980s, Logan has published several books on urban politics and patterns of urban growth and economic restructuring. He also co-wrote with Glenna Spitze a prize-winning book on the sociology of the family called Family Ties: Enduring Relations Between Parents and their Grown Children. In addition, he has published dozens of articles and book chapters on such topics as race and labor markets, immigration, suburbanization, globalization, and demographic trends. Most recently, Professor Logan has been working on globalization in urban China, and has just edited a new collection entitled The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform. His keynote presentation at the 2004 USP Student Forum, "Choosing Segregation in America's Public Schools," addresses his longstanding interest in urban racial segregation. |
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