Todd Swanstrom
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Todd Swanstrom is the Des Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and co-author of The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century (Cornell University Press).
How Republicans Stopped Talking About ‘Neighborhood,’ And Why Democrats Should Make That Term Their Own
Back in the Reagan era, Republicans made “neighborhood” a key component of their political vocabulary. But in Trump’s bizarrely dystopian rendering of cities, meaningful place-based ties either don’t exist or don’t matter. Democrats can take the term back, making it the centerpiece of a fresh progressive vision.