David Thacher

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how they came to where they are today, and their contribution to the field of city planning is discussed and discussed in detail, and the whole book or key segments, notably chapters 11 to 13, should find their way on to reading lists for city planning students as an excellent introduction to the profession.

TL;DR: The authors argue that policy actors do sometimes try to strike a balance among conflicting values, but they often avail themselves of other strategies as well: they cycle between values by emphasizing one value and then the other; they assign responsibilities for each value to different institutional structures; or they gather and consult a taxonomy of specific cases where similar conflicts arose.

TL;DR: Schol et al. as mentioned in this paper identify limits to the local role in homeland security by analyzing a case study of Dearborn, Michigan, which is home to one of the largest concentrations of Arabs in the United States, highlighting two kinds of burdens that cities incur when they engage in proactive surveillance to identify potential terrorists: damage to their reputation (since police surveillance implies that its objects are not trustworthy) and damage to police legitimacy.

TL;DR: This article argued that case studies can also contribute to normative theory, to theories about the ideals we should pursue and the obligations we should accept, and they suggested that social science has a vital role to play in the prescriptive study of values, particularly so-called "thick ethical concepts" like leadership, courage, and neighborhood vitality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the recent rise of criminal background screening in rental housing as a case study of the diffusion of actuarial social control, concluding that actuarial techniques have spread more widely through the crime prevention field than sociolegal scholars have recognized, replacing disciplinary efforts to diagnose and alter the behavior of individuals with actuarial efforts to identify and isolate high risk groups.