Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement

Written by engaged scholars and practitioners, Transforming Minds and Cities is an "e;instrument-for-action"e; on the problems faced by U.S. cities that have suffered from decades of disinvestment. The book advocates the concept of reciprocal knowledge: real learning on both sides, campus and city, through a complex network of human relationships. Across the country from Camden to Oakland, the con...