John R. Logan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mumford Center. Dr. Logan is co-author, along with Harvey Molotch, of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. His most recent edited book, The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform, will be published by Blackwell in 2001. He is currently at work on Never a Melting Pot—an exploration of the incorporation of immigrant and minority groups in New York's labor and housing markets from 1880 to the present.

 

John R. Logan                                                                                              Phone (518) 442-4656 
Department of Sociology                                                                             Fax (518) 442-4936
University at Albany                                                                                     J.LOGAN @ ALBANY.EDU
Albany, NY 12222 
 

EDUCATION

BA    University of California, Berkeley (March 1968)
MA    Columbia University (June 1969)
PhD   University of California, Berkeley (June 1974)
 

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

Phi Beta Kappa (Berkeley 1968)
Faculty Fellow (Columbia (1968-1969)
NSF National Fellow (Berkeley 1970-1972)
NEH Summer Fellow (1976)
Robert E. Park Award, ASA (l988)
Award for a Distinguished Scholarly Publication, ASA (1990)
Sorokin Lecturer, Pacific Sociological Association (1991)
University Award for Excellence in Research, SUNY (1991)
University Award for Excellence in Service, SUNY (1995)
Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Scholar (1996-1997)
William J. Goode Award, ASA (1997)
Rockefeller Foundation Study Center (Bellagio), Visiting Scholar (1999)
 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Public Administration and Policy, University at Albany, 2000-present.  Chair, Department of Sociology, 1988-1991.

Director, Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, University at Albany, 1999-present.

Visiting Professor, Amsterdam Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment, University of Amsterdam, Spring 2001.

Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Public Administration and Policy, University at Albany, 1980-1986.

Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1972-1980.

Urban Planner, Santa Clara County Planning Department, San Jose, California, 1971.

Community Organizer, Mid-Peninsula Community House, East Palo Alto, California, 1970-1971.
 

THESIS RESEARCH

Master's:  Political Consequences of Internal Migration during National Development.
         Advisor - Immanuel Wallerstein.

Doctoral:  Industrialization, Repression, and Working-Class Militancy in Spain.
          Advisor - Arthur Stinchcombe.
 

BOOKS

John R. Logan (editor).  1983.  Symposium:  Urban Theory and National Urban Policy.  Special issue of Urban Affairs Quarterly, 19 (September).

John R. Logan and Harvey Molotch.  1987.  Urban Fortunes:  The Political Economy of Place.  Los Angeles:  University of California Press.

Recipient of the l988 Robert E. Park Award for "an outstanding research monograph in community and urban sociology"  (American Sociological Association, Section on Community and Urban Sociology).

Recipient of the 1990 Award for a Distinguished Scholarly Publication (American Sociological Association).

John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom (editors).  1990.  Beyond the City Limits:  Urban Policy and Economic Restructuring in Comparative Perspective.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Alberto Gasparini, John R. Logan, and Valery Mansurov (editors).  1993.  Riqualificazione e Hinterland delle Grandi Citta.  Milan: Franco Angeli.

John R. Logan and Glenna D. Spitze.  1996.  Family Ties: Enduring Relations between Parents and Their Grown Children.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Recipient of the 1997 William J. Goode Distinguished Book Award (American Sociological Association, Section on the Family).

(Excerpts from Preface and Chapter 7 published as “Extending the Family,”  pp. 365-370 in Andrew J. Cherlin (editor), Public and Private Families, A Reader, 2nd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001).

John R. Logan (editor).  2001.  Globalization, Market Reform, and the New Chinese City.  London: Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming.
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ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

John R. Logan.  1976.  "Industrialization and the Stratification of Cities in Suburban Regions"  American Journal of Sociology 82(2): 333-348.

See Harvey Molotch.  1976.  "Varieties of Growth Strategy:  Some Comments on Logan"  American Journal of Sociology 82(2): 352-355.

John R. Logan.  1976.  "Notes on the Growth Machine:  Toward a Comparative Political Economy of Place"  American Journal of Sociology 82(2): 349-352.

John R. Logan and Gerald Zeitz.  1977.  "Mathematical Models in the Study of Power:  Comment on Mayhew and Levinger"  American Journal of Sociology 83(1):  l64-173.

John R. Logan.  1977.  "Affluence, Class Structure, and Working-Class Consciousness in Modern Spain"  American Journal of Sociology 83(2): 386-402. 

John R. Logan and Mark Schneider.  1978.  "The Ecological and Political Determinants of Suburban Development" Pp. 167-179 in Michael E. Kraft and Mark Schneider (editors), Population Policy Analysis:  Issues in American Politics.  Lexington:  Lexington Books.

John R. Logan.  1978.  "Rural-Urban Migration and Working-Class Consciousness:  The Spanish Case"  Social Forces 56(4): 1159-1178.

John R. Logan.  1978.  "Growth, Politics, and the Stratification of Places"  American Journal of Sociology 84(2): 404-416.

See Stephanie Greenberg.  1979.  "Comments on Logan's 'Growth, Politics, and the Stratification of Places'" and John R. Logan.  1979.  "Reply to Greenberg"  Both in American Journal of Sociology 85(3): 662-665 and 665-668.

Reprinted in Robert W. Lake (editor).  1982.  Readings in Urban Analysis: Perspectives on Urban Form and Structure.  New Brunswick:  Center for Urban Policy Research.

John R. Logan and Moshe Semyonov.  1980.  "Growth and Succession in Suburban Communities" Sociological Quarterly 21(Winter): 93-105.

John R. Logan.  1981.  "Class Structure, the Sexual Division of Labor, and Working-Class Consciousness in Spain"  Pp. 227-247 in Richard Simpson and Ida Harper Simpson (editors), Research in the Sociology of Work (Volume I).  Greenwich:  JAI Press.

John R. Logan and Mark Schneider.  1981.  "The Stratification of Metropolitan Suburbs, 1960-1970"  American Sociological Review 46(April): 175-186.

John R. Logan and Mark Schneider.  1981.  "Suburban Municipal Expenditures:  The Effects of Business Activity, Functional Responsibility, and Regional Context"  Policy Studies Journal 9(7): 1039-1050.

John R. Logan and Linda Brewster Stearns.  1981.  "Suburban Racial Segregation as a Non-Ecological Process"  Social Forces 60(l): 61-73.

Mark Schneider and John R. Logan.  1981.  "Fiscal Implications of Class Segregation:  Inequalities in the Distribution of Public Goods and Services in Suburban Municipalities."  Urban Affairs Quarterly 17(1): 23-26.

John R. Logan and Mark Schneider.  1982.  "The Effects of Business Activity, Functional Responsibility, and Regional Context on Suburban Municipal Expenditures"  Pp. 235-250 in Richard C. Rich (ed.)  Analyzing Urban-Service Distributions.  Lexington,MA:  Lexington Books.

John R. Logan and Mark Schneider.  1982.  "Governmental Organization and Changing City-Suburban Income Inequality"  Urban Affairs Quarterly 17(3):  303-318.

Mark Schneider and John R. Logan.  1982.  "The Effects of Local Government Finances on Community Growth Rates:  A Test of the Tiebout Hypothesis"  Urban Affairs Quarterly 18(1): 91-105.

Mark Schneider and John R. Logan.  1982.  "Suburban Racial Segregation and Black Access to Local Public Resources"  Social Science Quarterly 63(4): 762-770.

John R. Logan.  1983.  "Worker Mobilization and Party Politics:  Revolutionary Portugal in Perspective" Pp. 135-148 in Lawrence S. Graham and Douglas L. Wheeler (editors), In Search of Modern Portugal:  The Revolution and Its Consequences.  Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press.

John R. Logan and Mark Schneider.  1983.  "The Political Economy of Suburban Growth" Pp. 294-309 in John S. Pipkin, Mark LaGory, and Judith R. Blau (editors), Remaking the City:  Social Science Perspectives on Urban Design.  Albany:  SUNY Press.

John R. Logan and O. Andrew Collver.  1983.  "Residents' Perceptions of Suburban Community Differences"  American Sociological Review 48(June): 428-433.

John R. Logan.  1983.  "The Disappearance of Communities from National Urban Policy"  Urban Affairs Quarterly 19(l): 75-90.

1983.  Revised version published as "America's Urban Policy:  Survival of the Fittest"  Empire State Report 9(7): 6-l0.

John R. Logan and Mark Schneider.  1984.  "Racial Segregation and Racial Change in American Suburbs, 1970-1980" American Journal of Sociology 89 (January):874-888.

Harvey Molotch and John R. Logan.  1984.  "Tensions in the Growth Machines:  Overcoming Resistance to Value-Free Development"  Social Problems 31(5): 483-499.

Reprinted in Larry Lyon and Roland Warren (editors).  1987.  New Perspectives on the American Community, 5th ed.  Homewood, IL:  Dorsey.

John R. Logan.  1984.  "The Graying of the Suburbs"  Aging  345(June-July): 4-8.

Kevin Fitzpatrick and John R. Logan.  1985.  "The Aging of the Suburbs:  1960-1980"  American Sociological Review 50(February): 106-117.

John R. Logan.  1985.  "Democracy from Above:  Limits to Change in Southern Europe"  Pp. 149-177 in Giovanni Arrighi (editor), Semiperipheral Development:  The Politics of Southern Europe in the Twentieth Century.  Beverly Hills:  Sage.

Mark Schneider and John R. Logan.  1985.  "Suburban Municipalities:  The Changing System of Intergovernmental Relations in the Mid-l970's"  Urban Affairs Quarterly 2l(September): 87-l05.

Harvey Molotch and John R. Logan.  1985.  "Urban Dependencies:  New Patterns of Use and Exchange in American Cities"  Urban Affairs Quarterly 2l(December): 143-169.

John R. Logan and Reid Golden.  1986.  "Suburbs and Satellites:  Two Decades of Change."  American Sociological Review 51(June):  430-437.

Linda Brewster Stearns and John R. Logan.  1986.  "The Racial Structuring of the Housing Market and Segregation in Suburban Areas"  Social Forces, 65(September): 28-42.

Linda Brewster Stearns and John R. Logan.  1986.  "Measuring Trends in Segregation:  Three Dimensions, Three Measures"  Urban Affairs Quarterly 22(September): 124-150.

John R. Logan and Stephen A. Messner.  1987.  "Racial Residential Segregation and Suburban Violent Crime."  Social Science Quarterly, 68(September): 5l0-527.

John R. Logan.  1988.  "Fiscal and Developmental Crises in Black Suburbs."  Pp. 333-356 in Scott Cummings (editor), Business Elites and Urban Development.  Albany:  SUNY Press.

Reprinted in Larry Lyon and Roland Warren (editors).  l987.  New Perspectives on the American Community, 5th ed.  Homewood, IL: Dorsey.

John R. Logan.  l988.  "Producing Sociology:  Time Trends in Authorship of Journal Articles, l975-l986"  The American Sociologist l9(Summer): l67-l80.

John R. Logan and Glenna Spitze.  1988.  "Suburbanization and Public Services for the Aging."  The Gerontologist 28(October): 644-647.

John R. Logan and Min Zhou.  l988.  "The Theoretical Development of U.S. Urban Sociology and Its Current Situation"  (in Chinese).  Sociological Studies (Beijing) 4(July):  l27-l40.

John R. Logan.  l988.  "The Regional Dimension in Authorship of Journal Articles, l975-l986"  The Southern Sociologist, 19(Summer): 7-9.
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Glenna Spitze and John R. Logan.  1989.  "Gender Differences in Family Support:  Is There a Payoff?"  The Gerontologist, 29(February): 108-113.

John R. Logan and Min Zhou.  l989.  "Do Suburban Growth Controls Control Growth?"  American Sociological Review, 54(June): 461-471.

Min Zhou and John R. Logan.  1989.  "Returns on Human Capital in Ethnic Enclaves:  New York City's Chinatown"  American Sociological Review, 54(October): 809-820.

Harvey Molotch and John R. Logan.  1990.  "The Space for Urban Action"  Political Geography Quarterly, 9(January): 85-92.

Glenna Spitze and John R. Logan.  1990.  "Sons, Daughters, and Intergenerational Support" Journal of Marriage and the Family 52(May): 420-430.

John R. Logan.  1990.  "How to Study the City:  Arguments for a New Approach"  Urban Geography 11,2: 200-205.

John R. Logan and Min Zhou.  1990.  "The Adoption of Growth Controls in Suburban Communities"  Social Science Quarterly 71(March): 118-129.

John R. Logan and Gordana Rabrenovic.  1990.  "Neighborhood Associations:  Their Issues, Their Allies, and Their Opponents"  Urban Affairs Quarterly 26(September): 68-94.

Reprinted in Roger Caves (editor),  Exploring Urban America: An Introductory Reader.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.

Glenna Spitze and John R. Logan.  1990.  "More Evidence on Women (and Men) in the Middle"  Research on Aging 12(June): 182-198.

John R. Logan.  1991.  "Blaming the Suburbs?"  Social Science Quarterly, 72(September):496-500.

Glenna Spitze and John R. Logan.  1991.  "Employment and Filial Relations:  Is There a Conflict?"  Sociological Forum 6 (December): 681-698.

John R. Logan.  1991.  "Neighborhood Associations and the Politics of Development"  Urban Land 50(May):32-33.

John R. Logan.  1991.  "Great Expectations"  Demography, 28(August):486-492.

Richard Alba and John R. Logan.  1991.  "Variations on Two Themes:  Racial and Ethnic Patterns in the Attainment of Suburban Residence"  Demography, 28(August): 431-453.

John R. Logan.  1991.  "Making the City, Making It Work"  Contemporary Sociology, 20(July):582-585.

Glenna Spitze and John R. Logan.  1991.  "Sibling Structure and Intergenerational Relations"  Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53(November):871-884.

John R. Logan.  1991.  "Gambling on Real Estate:  Limited Rationality in the Global Economy."  Sociological Perspectives, 34:391-401.

Min Zhou and John R. Logan.  1991.  "In and Out of Chinatown:  Residential Mobility and Segregation of New York City's Chinese."  Social Forces, 70(December):387-407.

John R. Logan.  1992.  "Suburbanization"  Pp. 2104-2111 in Edgar Borgatta (editor), Encyclopedia of Sociology.  New York:  MacMillan. 

Richard D. Alba and John R. Logan.  1992. "Analyzing Locational Attainments:  Constructing Individual-Level Regression Models Using Aggregate Data" Sociological Methods and Research, 20(February):367-397.

John R. Logan, Peter Taylor-Gooby, and Monika Reuter.  1992.  "Poverty and Income Inequality"  In Susan Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe (editors), Divided Cities. : New York and London in the Contemporary World.  Oxford:  Blackwell.

John R. Logan.  1992.  "Cycles and Trends in the Globalization of Real Estate"  In Paul Knox (editor), The Restless Urban Landscape.  Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice Hall.

Russell Ward, John R. Logan, Glenna Spitze.  1992  "The Influence of Parent and Child Needs on Coresidence in Middle and Later Life"  Journal of Marriage and the Family 54(February): 209-221.

Glenna Spitze and John R. Logan.  1992  "Helping as a Component of Parent-Adult Child Relations."  Research on Aging, 14 (September): 291-312.

Glenna Spitze, John R. Logan, and Joyce Robinson.  1992  "Family Structure and Changes in Living Arrangements Among Elderly Nonmarried Parents."  Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 47:S289-296.

John R. Logan, Russell Ward and Glenna Spitze.  1992.  "As Old as You Feel:  Age Identity in Middle and Later Life."  Social Forces 71 (December): 451-467.

Richard D. Alba and John R. Logan.  1992.  "Assimilation and Stratification in the Homeownership Patterns of Different Racial and Ethnic Groups,"  International Migration Review 26 (Winter): 1314-1341.

Richard D. Alba and John R. Logan.  1993.  "Minority Proximity to Whites in Suburbs: An Individual-Level Analysis of Segregation"  American Journal of Sociology 98 (May):  1388-1427.

John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba.  1993.  "Locational Returns to Human Capital: Minority Access to Suburban Community Resources"  Demography 30 (May):243-268.

Sonia Miner, John R. Logan, and Glenna Spitze.  1993.  "Predicting the Frequency of Senior Center Use"  The Gerontologist 33:650-657.

John R. Logan and Yanjie Bian.  1993.  "Inequalities in Access to Community Resources in a Chinese City"  Social Forces 72 (December): 555-576.

John R. Logan and Glenna Spitze.  1994.  "Informal Support and the Use of Formal Services by Older Americans"  Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 49 (January): S25-S34.

John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, and Thomas McNulty.  1994.  "Ethnic Economies in Metropolitan Regions: Miami and Beyond"  Social Forces 72 (March): 691-724.

Glenna Spitze, John R. Logan, Genevieve Joseph, and Eunju Lee.  1994.  "Middle Generation Roles and the Well-being of Men and Women"  Journal of Gerontology 49(May): S107-S116.

Glenna Spitze, John R. Logan, Glenn Deane, and Suzanne Zerger.  1994.  "Adult Children's Divorce and Intergenerational Relationships"  Journal of Marriage and the Family 56 (May): 279-293. 

Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan and Shu-yin Leung.  1994.  "Asian Immigrants in American Suburbs:  An Analysis of the Greater New York Metropolitan area"  Pp. 43-70 in Mark Baldassare (editor), Suburban Communities: Change and Policy Responses.  Research in Community Sociology, Volume 4.  Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, and Thomas McNulty.  1994.  "The Racially Divided City: Housing and Labor Markets in Los Angeles"  Pp. 118-140 in Seamus Dunn (editor), Managing Divided Cities.  Keele: Ryburn Publishing.

John R. Logan and Glenna Spitze.  1994.  "Family Neighbors"  American Journal of Sociology 100 (September): 453-476.

Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan and Paul Bellair.  1994.  "Living with Crime: The Implications of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Suburban Location"  Social Forces 73 (December): 395-434. 

Richard D. Alba, Nancy Denton, Shu-Yin Leung, and John R. Logan.  1995.  "Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration: The New York City Region, 1970-1990"  International Migration Review 29: 625-656.

John R. Logan and Glenna Spitze.  1995.  "Self-Interest and Altruism in Intergenerational Relations"  Demography 32 (August): 353-364.

Abridged version reprinted in Perspective on Aging (January-March 1994) 23: 27-29.

John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba.  1995.  "Who Lives in Affluent Suburbs?  Racial Differences in Eleven Metropolitan Regions"  Sociological Focus 28:353-364.

John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, and Shu-Yin Leung.  1996.  "Minority Access to White Suburbs: A Multi-Region Comparison"  Social Forces 74 (March): 851-882.

Yanjie Bian and John R. Logan.  1996.  "Market Transition and the Persistence of Power: The Changing Stratification System in Urban China"  American Sociological Review 61:739-58.

Min Zhou and John R. Logan.  1996.  "Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing in Urban China"  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 20:400-21.

John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, and Thomas McNulty.  1996.  "Minorities in the Global City: New York and Los Angeles"  Pp. 217-233 in Enzo Mingione (editor), Urban Poverty and the Underclass.  London: Basil Blackwell.

French version published as:  John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, and Thomas McNulty.  1995.  "Les minorités des villes globales: New York et Los Angeles"  Sociétés Contemporaines 22/23: 69-87.

John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, Tom McNulty and Brian Fisher.  1996.  "Making a Place in the Metropolis: Locational Attainment in Cities and Suburbs"  Demography 33: 443-53.

John R. Logan and Harvey Molotch.  1996.  “The Theory of the Growth Machine”  Pp. 291-337 in Readings in Urban Theory, edited by Susan S. Fainstein and Scott Campbell.  Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

John R. Logan.  1996.  "Rural America as a Symbol of American Values."  Rural Development Perspectives 12: 24-28.

John R. Logan, Rachel Bridges Whaley, and Kyle Crowder.  1997.  "The Character and Consequences of Growth Regimes: An Assessment of Twenty Years of Research"  Urban Affairs Review 32: 603-630.
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Reprinted in Andrew Jonas and David Wilson (editors), The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Twenty Years Later.  Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 1998.

Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, and Kyle Crowder.  1997.  "White Neighborhoods and Assimilation: The Greater New York Region, 1980-1990"  Social Forces 75: 883-909.

Yanjie Bian, John R. Logan, Hanlong Lu, Yunkang Pan, and Ying Guan.  1997.  “Work Units and Housing Reform in Two Chinese Cities”  Pp. 223-250 in Elizabeth Perry and Xiabo Lu (editors), The Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective.  New York: M.E. Sharpe.

Chinese version published as: Hanlong Lu, Yanjie Bian, John R. Logan, Yunkang Pan, and Ying Guan.  1996.  "Work Units and Housing Reform in Two Chinese Cities"  Sociological Research (Chinese Academy of Social Science).

Revised Chinese version published in Wu Shuqing and Associates (editors), Selected Works for Socialism with a Chinese Character.  Beijing: Unity Press.

Marlese Durr and John R. Logan.  1997.  "Racial Submarkets in Government Employment"  Sociological Forum 12: 353-70.

Yunkang Pan, John R. Logan, Fuqin Bian, Yanjie Bian, and Hanlong Lu.  1997.  “Sources and Trends of Coresidence in the Urban Chinese Family” Sociological Research (Chinese Academy of Social Science) 6: 69-79.

Yanjie Bian, John R. Logan, Hanlong Lu, Yunkang Pan, and Ying Guan.  1997.  “Work Units and the Commodification of Housing: Observations on the Transition to a Market Economy with Chinese Characteristics”  Social Sciences in China (Chinese Academy of Social Science) 18:28-35.

Allen Liska, John R. Logan, and Paul Bellair.  1998.  “Race and Violent Crime in the Suburbs”  American Sociological Review 63:27-38.

John R. Logan, Fuqin Bian, and Yanjie Bian.  1998.  “Tradition and Change in the Urban Chinese Family: The Case of Living Arrangements”  Social Forces 76:851-82.

Fuqin Bian, John R. Logan, and Yanjie Bian.  1998.  “Intergenerational Relations in Urban China: Proximity, Contact, and Help to Parents”  Demography 35: 115-124.

John R. Logan, Yanjie Bian, and Fuqin Bian.  1999.  “Housing Inequality in Urban China in the 1990s”  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23 (March):7-25.

John R. Logan and Brian Stults.  1999.  “Racial Differences in Exposure to Crime: The City and Suburbs of Cleveland in 1990”  Criminology 37 (May):251-276.

John R. Logan and Fuqin Bian.  1999.  “Family Values and Co-Residence with Married Children in Urban China”  Social Forces 77 (June):1253-1282.

Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, Brian Stults, Gilbert Marzan, and Wenquan Zhang.  1999.  “Immigrant Groups and Suburbs: A Reexamination of Suburbanization and Spatial Assimilation”  American Sociological Review 64 (June):446-60.

John R. Logan.  1999.  “Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York”  In Peter Marcuse and Ronald Van Kempen (editors), Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, Wenquan Zhang, and Brian Stults.  1999.  “Strangers Next Door: Immigrant Groups and Suburbs in Los Angeles and New York”  In Phyllis Moen, Henry Walker, and Donna Dempster-McClain (editors), A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

John R. Logan.  1999.  “Competing for Urban Growth: Growth Coalitions around the Globe” In Markku Sotarauta (editor),  Urban Futures: A Loss of Shadows in the Flowing Spaces?  Special issue of Futura (Finnish Society for Futures Studies).  18:64-75.

John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba.  1999.  “Minority Niches and Immigrant Enclaves in New York and Los Angeles: Trends and Impacts.”  Pp. 172-193 in Frank Bean and Stephanie Bell-Rose (editors), Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity, and Employment in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

John R. Logan, Richard D. Alba, Michael Dill, and Min Zhou.  2000.  “Ethnic Segmentation in the American Metropolis: Increasing Divergence in Economic Incorporation, 1980-1990.”  International Migration Review 34 (Spring):98-132.

Yanjie Bian, John R. Logan, and Xiaolong Shu.  2000.  “Economic Reform and the Gender Wage Gap in China.”  In Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson (editors), Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Household, and Gender in China.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

John R. Logan.  2000.  “Suburbanization”  In Edgar Borgatta (editor), Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition.  New York:  MacMillan.

Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, and Brian Stults.  2000.  “The Changing Neighborhood Contexts of the Immigrant Metropolis”  Social Forces, forthcoming.

John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba.  2000.  “Does Race Matter Less for the Truly Advantaged?  Residential Patterns in the New York Metropolis”  In Marlese Durr (editor), The New Politics of Race: From DuBois to the 21st Century.  New York: Praeger, forthcoming.

Yanjie Bian, Xiaoling Shu, and John R. Logan.  2001.  "Communist Party Membership and Regime Dynamics in China"  Social Forces, forthcoming.

Richard D. Alba, John R. Logan, and Brian J. Stults.  2000.  “How Segregated Are Middle-Class African Americans?”  Social Problems, forthcoming.

Fuqin Bian and John R. Logan.  2001.  "A Comparative Analysis of Intergenerational Relations in China and the United States"  Sociological Research (Chinese Academy of Social Science), forthcoming.
 

BOOK REVIEWS

Constance Perin.  Everything in Its Place.  Sociology and Social Research 63(October 1978).

W.A.V. Clark and Eric G. Moore (editors).  Residential Mobility and Public Policy.  Contemporary Sociology 11(September 1982):  536-537.

Donald Hicks and Norman Glickman.  Transition to the 21st Century:  Prospects and Policies for Urban Regional Transformation.  Contemporary Sociology 13(July 1984):  529.

Joe Feagin.  The Urban Real Estate Game.  Work and Occupations 13(February 1986):  163-164.

Henry Binford.  The First Suburbs:  Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery 1815-1860.  American Journal of Sociology 92(September 1986):  488-489.

Neil Smith.  Uneven Development:  Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. American Political Science Review 81(June 1987): 694-696.

Stuart Lowe.  Urban Social Movements:  The City after Castells.  Contemporary Sociology 16 (November 1987):  838.

Amos Hawley.  Human Ecology:  A Theoretical Essay.  Annals of the American Association of Geographers 78 (March 1988):  186-187.

Michael Peter Smith.  City, State, and Market:  The Political Economy of Urban Society. American Journal of Sociology 95 (July 1989): 217-218.

Eric H. Monkonnen.  America Becomes Urban:  The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980.  Contemporary Sociology, 18(September 1989): 741-742.

William H. Frey and Alden Speare, Jr.  Regional and Metropolitan Growth and Decline in the United States.  Social Forces 68(March 1990): 987-988.

Mark Schneider.  The Competitive City:  The Political Economy of Suburbia.  American Journal of Sociology 95 (May 1990): 1601-1602.

Gerald D. Suttles.  The Man-Made City: The Land Use Confidence Game in Chicago.  Contemporary Sociology 20 (July 1991): 582-585.

Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn.  Downtown, Inc.  How America Rebuilds Cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 15 (September 1991): 476-477.

Ann Markusen, Peter Hall, Scott Campbell, and Sabina Deitrick.  The Rise of the Gunbelt.  Contemporary Sociology 22 (January 1993): 54-55.

Ira Katznelson.  Marxism and the City.  Contemporary Sociology 22 (July 1993): 557-559.

John Walton.  Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California.  International Journal of Urban and Regional Development 17 (December 1993): 626-627.

Robert A. Beauregard.  Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities.  Contemporary Sociology 23 (November 1994): 845-846.

Gregory Squires.  Capital and Communities in Black and White.  International Journal of Urban and Regional Development 20 (September 1996): 559-60.

Charles Haar.  Suburbs Under Siege: Race, Space, and Audacious Judges.  And David Kirp, John Dwyer, and Larry Rosenthal.  Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia.  American Journal of Sociology 102 (May 1997): 1747-1749.

Charlotte Ikels. The Return of the God of Wealth: The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China.  Contemporary Sociology 26 (May 1997): 345-46.

Barbara Ferman.  Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh.  Urban Affairs Review 33 (November 1997): 298-300.

Joe Feagin.  The New Urban Paradigm: Critical Perspectives on the City.  Contemporary Sociology 27 (November 1998): 620-621.

James Gimpel.  Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Places.  American Journal of Sociology, forthcoming.
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CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Political Socialization at the University of Buenos Aires (with David Nasatir).  Eastern Sociological Society, April 1969.

Problems in the Utilization of Medical Sociology.  Pacific Sociological Association, April 1970.

Affluence, Class Structure, and Working-Class Consciousness in Modern Spain.  American Sociological Association, August 1974.

The Political Economy of Suburban Growth:  A Two-Region Comparison (with Mark Schneider).  International Studies Association, February 1976.

Growth, Politics, and the Stratification of Places.  American Sociological Association, August 1977.

Growth and Succession in Suburban Communities (with Moshe Semyonov).  Population Association of America, April 1978.

Income Inequalities among Metropolitan Communities (with Mark Schneider).  International Sociological Association, August 1978.

Metropolitan Political Economy:  Possibilities for Comparative Urban Research.  Conference on Comparative Urban Research, University of Chicago, April 1979.

Worker Mobilization and Party Politics in Portugal.  II International Conference on Modern Portugal, University of New Hampshire, June 1979.

State Policy and Metropolitan Stratification.  Invited speaker for a panel organized by the Community Section, American Sociological Association, August 1979.

Governmental Organization and Changing City-Suburb Income Inequality (with Mark Schneider).  American Sociological Association, August 1979. 

Suburban Racial Segregation as a Non-Ecological Process (with Linda Brewster Stearns).  Eastern Sociological Society, April 1980.

Trends in Racial Segregation:  A Caution on the Index of Dissimilarity (with Linda Brewster Stearns).  American Sociological Association, August 1980.

Suburban Racial Segregation and Black Access to Local Public Resources (with Mark Schneider).  Pacific Sociological Association, March 1981.

The Fiscal Implications of Class Segregation for Suburban Municipalities (with Mark Schneider).  American Sociological Association, August 1981.

The Effects of Local Government Finances on Community Growth Rates:  A Test of the Tiebout Hypothesis (with Mark Schneider).  International Sociological Association, August 1982.

Fiscal Implications of Black and Low-Income Suburbanization in the 1970's (with Mark Schneider).  American Political Science Association, September 1982.

Racial Segregation and Racial Change in American Suburbs, 1970-1980 (with Mark Schneider).  American Sociological Association, September 1982.

Democracy from Above:  Limits to Change in Southern Europe.  II Colloquium on the Political Economy of Southern Europe, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France. June 1983.

Challenges to Value-Free Development:  Tensions in the Growth Machines (with  Harvey Molotch).  Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 1983.

Growth Costs and Benefits:  Rent Levels, Environmentalism, and Economic Shifts (with Harvey Molotch).  Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 1983.

Fiscal Disparities and the Location of Firms in Suburban Regions (with Mark Schneider).  International Studies Association, April 1984.

The Aging of the Suburbs, 1960-1970 (with Kevin Fitzpatrick).  Eastern Sociological Society, March 1984.

Measuring Trends in Segregation:  Three Dimensions, Three Measures (with Linda Brewster Stearns).  American Sociological Association, August 1984.

Coping with Cutbacks:  The Changing Fiscal Situation of Black and Low-Income Suburbs (with Mark Schneider).  Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 1984.

Suburbs and Satellites:  Two Decades of Change (with Reid Golden).  American Sociological Association, August 1985.

The National Context of Urban Fortunes.  Invited speaker for a panel organized by the Community Section, American Sociological Association, August 1985.

The Changing Nature of the Suburbs and Suburban Crime (with Stephen A. Messner).  Eastern Sociological Society, April 1986.

Growth Controls and Suburban Growth in the United States.  American Sociological Association, August 1986.

There Is an Urban Sociology (with Harvey Molotch).  American Sociological Association, August 1986.

The Future of Urban Sociology.  Southern Sociological Society, March 1988.

Why Growth Controls Don't Restrain Growth (with Harvey Molotch). Urban Affairs Association,  March 1989.

Representing Neighborhoods:  The Impossible Dream?  Conference on Urban Revitalization in the 1990's, University of Dayton, February 1990.

Residential Mobility and Ethnic Segregation of New York City's Chinese (with Min Zhou).  XII World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, Spain.  July 1990.

The Globalization of Real Estate Development?  XII World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, Spain.  July 1990.

Variations on a Theme:  Racial and Ethnic Patterns of Suburbanization in the U.S.A. (with Richard Alba).  XII World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, Spain.  July 1990.

From Beyond the City Limits.  Urban Affairs Conference, Ohio State University, October 1990.

Helping as a Component of Parent-Adult Child Relations (with Glenna Spitze).  Gerontological Society of America, November 1990.
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Selection Factors in Senior Center Membership (with Sonia Miner and Glenna Spitze).  Gerontological Society of America, November 1990.

American Cities and Their Hinterlands:  The Impact of Global Development.  Conference on "Innovazione Tecnologica e Scenari Futuri per la Citta."  Trieste, Italy. February 1991. 

Minority Proximity to Whites in Suburbs:  An Individual-Level Analysis of Segregation (with Richard Alba).  Population Association of America, March 1991.

The Globalization of Real Estate.  Sorokin Lecture, Pacific Sociological Association, April 1991.

Minority Access to Suburban Community Resources (with Richard Alba).  American Sociological Association, August 1991.

Parent-Child Coresidence in Middle and Later Life:  Whose Needs Dominate?  (with Russell Ward and Glenna Spitze).  American Sociological Association, August 1991.

Inequalities in Access to Community Resources in a Chinese City (with Yan-Jan Bian). Eighth Urban Change and Conflict Conference, Lancaster, England. September 1991.

Out but not Up:  The Experience of Minorities in American Suburbs.  First Research Conference on the Future of European Cities, Espinho, Portugal. October 1991.

Accessibility and the Use of Senior Services (with Glenna Spitze). Gerontological Society of America, November 1991.

Making a Place in the City:  Residential Assimilation and Segregation in the New York Metropolis (with Richard Alba and Brian Fisher).  Population Association of America, April 1992.

Beyond Miami: Ethnic Enclaves in American Cities (with Richard Alba and Tom McNulty).  American Sociological Association, August 1992.

Neighboring in the Support Network of Older Persons (with Glenna Spitze).  Gerontological Society of America, November 1992.

Neighborhood Change under Conditions of Mass Immigration (with Richard Alba, Nancy Denton, and Shu-Yin Leung).  Population Association of America, April 1993.

The Racially Divided City: Housing and Labor Markets in Los Angeles  (with Richard Alba and Thomas McNulty).  Fullbright Colloquium on Managing Divided Cities, University of Ulster, Derry, Northern Ireland. September 1993.

The Assimilation of Asian and Hispanic Immigrants in a Global City: The Case of New York  European Science Foundation Conference on the Future of European Cities, Barcelona, Spain.  October 1993.

Self-Interest and Altruism in Intergenerational Relations (with Glenna Spitze).  Gerontological Society of America, November 1993.

Black Suburbia: On the Cutting Edge.  XIII World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Bielefeld, Germany. July 1994.

Development Policy and Suburban Growth (with Kyle Crowder and Rachel Whaley).  American Sociological Association, August 1994.

Rural America as a Symbol of American Values.  Symposium on "The Value of Rural America," National Rural Economic Development Institute, April 1995.

White Ethnic Neighborhoods in an Immigration Metropolis (with Richard Alba and Kyle Crowder).  Eastern Sociological Society, April 1995.

Market Transition and the Persistence of Power: The Changing Stratification System in Urban China  (with Yanjie Bian).  Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, April 1995.

Market Reform in China?  Workshop on the Market Transition Debate: Between Socialism and Capitalism.  UCLA, May 1995.

Minority Access to White Suburbs: A Multi-Region Comparison (with Richard Alba and Shu Yin Leung).  American Sociological Association, August 1995.

Tradition and Change in the Urban Chinese Family: The Case of Living Arrangements (with Fuqin Bian and Yanjie Bian).  American Sociological Association, August 1995.

Global Neighborhoods: The Ghettos, Barrios and Enclaves of New York.  European Science Foundation Conference on the Future of European Cities, Maratea, Italy. September 1995. 

Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York.  Conference on the Partitioned City, Berlin, Germany. June 1996.

New Mechanisms of Stratification in Urban China: Wages and Housing in Transition.  Conference on Global Conflict and Change, Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development (ISA), Brisbane, Australia.  July 1996.

The Suburbanization of Contemporary Immigrant Groups (with Richard Alba, Gilbert Marzan, and Wenquan Zhang).  American Sociological Association, August 1996.

Does Upward Mobility Mean Living in a Better Neighborhood? The Experience of Minorities and Immigrants in the New York Metropolis.  W.E.B. DuBois Conference on Conservatism Affirmative Action, and Other Public Policy Issues, Wright State University, October 1996.

Urban Growth Machines: Do They Make a Difference?  Interdisciplinary Conference on Milieu Construction, Turku, Finland. January 1997.

Race and Ethnicity in New York, Then and Now.  Conference of the Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association, Berlin, Germany.  July 1997.

Immigrant Groups and Suburbs: A Test of Spatial Assimilation Theory (with Richard Alba, Gilbert Marzan, Brian Stults, and Wenquan Zhang).  Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 1997.

Group Boundaries in Jobs and Housing: The Cases of New York and Los Angeles (with Richard Alba). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 1997.

The Persistence of the Suburban Landscape.  Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, October 1997.

Ethnic Turf in Jobs and Housing: New York from 1920 to 1960.  Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 1998.

The Costs of Exclusion: Race and Violent Crime in Cleveland Suburbs.  Suburban Racial Change Conference, Harvard University, March 1998.

Crabgrass Frontier Revisited.  Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 1998.

Making a Place in the Immigrant Metropolis (with Richard Alba and Brian Stults).  World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, Canada.  July 1998.

Regime Dynamics and Communist Party Membership in China, 1949-1993 (with Yanjie Bian and Xiaoling Shu).  Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 1998.

Intergenerational Financial Exchange in Chinese Cities (with Fuqin Bian). Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 1998.

Residential Segregation and Immigrant Ethnic Neighborhoods in New York, 1920.  Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 1998.

Globalization and Urban Change in Shanghai.  International Conference on City, State, and Region in A Global Order: Toward the 21st Century, Hiroshima, Japan, December 1998.

Only English by the Third Generation?  Mother Tongue Loss and Preservation among the Grandchildren of Contemporary Immigrants”  (with Richard Alba, Amy Lutz, and Brian Stults).  Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 1999.

Civil Participation, Conflict and Exclusion in Global Neighborhoods.  Conference on Civil Participation and Civil Society, Bellagio, Italy, April 1999.

Research Issues in Urban China.  Workshop on Internal Migration and Its Impacts on Chinese Urbanization, Albany, May 1999.

Three Challenges for the Chinese City: Globalization, Migration, and Market Reform”  Conference on the Future of Chinese Cities, Shanghai, July 1999.

The Occupational Ranking of Racial and Ethnic Groups in New York, 1880-1970.  Social Science History Association, Ft. Worth, November 1999.

A Century of Exclusion: The Segregation of Immigrants and Minorities in New York, 1900-1990.  Conference on Urbanism and Suburbanism at the End of the Century, National University of Ireland (Maynooth), November 1999.

The Urban Neighborhood in the Lives of Its Residents: The Case of Shanghai.  International Conference on Urban Development in China: Last Half Century and into the Next Millenium.  Zhongshan, China, December 1999.

The Determinants of Inclusion: Examining the Selectivity Bias in New York's 1920 City Directory (with Jacob I. Stowell).  Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April 2000.

Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic Communities in New York and Los Angeles (with Richard D. Alba and Wenquan Zhang).  Urban Affairs Association, Los Angeles, May 2000.
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MAJOR RESEARCH FUNDING

The Political Economy of Suburban Growth:  Differentiation and Stratification of American Suburbs, 1950-1970 (with Mark Schneider).  Project funded by the National Science Foundation 1978-1980 and renewed for 1980-1982 ($250,000).

Population Composition and Change in American Suburbs (with Mark Schneider).  Project funded by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 1983-1986 ($260,000).

Growth and Growth Politics in American Suburbs.  Project funded by the National Science Foundation 1986-1988 ($40,000).

Informal and Formal Supports in Aging (with Glenna Spitze).  Project funded by the National Institute on Aging 1988-1991 ($538,000).

Family Structure and Intergenerational Relations (with Glenna Spitze).  Project funded by the National Institute on Aging, 1989-1992 ($305,000). 

Suburbanization Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Groups (with Richard Alba).  Project funded by the National Science Foundation, 1990-1992 ($80,000).

The Changing Character of Inner City Neighborhoods (with Richard Alba and Ray Bromley).  Project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, 1990-1991 ($50,000).

Suburbanization Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Groups (with Richard Alba).  Project funded by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1990-1993 ($580,000).

Access to Housing and Community Resources in a Chinese City (with Yanjie Bian).  Project funded by National Science Foundation, 1992-1995 ($154,000)

Residential Patterns of Minorities in the Metropolis (with Richard Alba).  Project funded by National Science Foundation, 1995-1998 ($174,300).

Intergenerational Relations in Chinese Cities.  Project funded by National Institutes of Health (NICHD and NIA), 1996-1999 ($350,000).

Generations of Immigrants and Minorities in New York.  Project funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, 1998-1999 ($80,200).

Group Boundaries in New York and Chicago, 1900-1920.  Project funded by the National Science Foundation, 1998-2001 ($318,000).  Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement ($15,000).

Urban China Research Network.  Project funded by the Mellon Foundation, 2000-2003 ($480,000).

Immigration, Ethnicity, and the Family.  Project funded by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000-2004 ($944,000).

Economic Revitalization through Technology and Education-Based Institutions.  Project funded by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2000-2001 ($85,000).
 

PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Professional

Editorial boards: 
  Urban Affairs Review (1999-present)
  Sociological Forum (1994-present)
  Journal of Urban Affairs (1989-1992, 1998-present)
  Contemporary Sociology (1997-1999)
  American Journal of Sociology (1995-1997)
  American Sociological Review (1985-1987).
  Social Forces (1985-1988).
  Sociological Quarterly (1986-1988).
  The American Sociologist (1990-1994)

Member of the American Sociological Association since 1968.  Appointed to Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award Committee, (1995-98, Chair 1995-97).  Appointed to Spivack Program Advisory Committee (1997-2000).  Elected to Committee on Publications (1998-2001).

Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association.  Council member (1987-1996), Chair-elect (1990-92), Chair (1993-94).

Council member, Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development.  International Sociological Association (1990-present).  President (1994-98).

Panel member, Sociology Program, NSF (1997-99).  Panel member, Infrastructure Program, SBE, NSF (1999).  Member, Committee of Visitors, Sociology Program (2000).

Panel member, Social Sciences and Population Study Section, NIH (l988-l992).

Director, Urban China Research Network (1999-present).  Board member, North American Chinese Sociologists Association (2000-2002).

Advisory board member, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, University of California at Santa Barbara (2000- present).

Conference organizer/co-organizer:
  Urban Theory and National Urban Policy (Albany, April 1983)
  University Seminar in Urban Affairs (Albany, 1984-1987)
  Urban Policy and Economic Restructuring (Albany, April 1989)
  Internal Migration and Its Impacts on Chinese Urbanization (Albany, May 1999)
  City, State, and Region in a Global Order: Toward the 21st Century (Hiroshima, Dec. 1998)
  The Future of Chinese Cities: A Research Agenda for the 21st Century (Shanghai, July 1999)
  Spatial Aspects of Inequality and Equity (Santa Barbara, Nov. 2000)
  Doing Research on Urban China (Hong Kong, Dec. 2000)

External reviewer (par externo), Escuela de Sociología y Antropología, Universidad de Costa Rica (Fall 1998).

Co-editor (with Todd Swanstrom), Series on Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development, Temple University Press (1987-1996).

National Advisory Panel member, Joint U.S. Conference of Mayors and National Association of Counties project on "Graying of Suburbia: Policy Implications for Local Officials."  (1986-88).

University

Department Chair (1988-1991), director of graduate program (1981-1984), and various other departmental committee work.

Director, Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Region Research (1999-present).  Member of governing board (1987-92).

Elected member of the Faculty Council of the College of Arts and Sciences (1993-1996).  Vice-chair (1993-94 and 1994-95).  Chair (1995-96).

Elected member of University Senate (1982-1985), member of Committee on Academic Freedom and Ethics (1982-1984), Vice-chair of Graduate Academic Council (1984-1986), Chair of Committee on Admissions and Academic Standing (1984-1986), member of Undergraduate Academic Council (1997-98), member of Selection Committee for Distinguished Service and Teaching Professorships (1999-2000).

Search committees: Chair, Department of African and Afro-American Studies (1983-1984 and 1987-1988); Vice-President for Research and Educational Development (1984-1985); Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1994-95), Dean of the School of Social Welfare (1997-98).

President's Budget Panel, 1987-1989.

Interdisciplinary participation:  Executive Committee, Department of Public Affairs and Policy (1984-1987); Faculty Research Associate, Ringel Institute of Gerontology (1984-1992);
Advisory Committee for Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning (1985-1988); Committee on Strengthening the Department of African and Afro-American Studies (1985-1986); Board of Directors, Center for Policy Research (1987-1990); Faculty Associate, Department of Geography and Planning (1985-present).
 
 

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