Laura Wolf-Powers is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her work examines neighborhood revitalization strategies and urban and regional economic development policy and planning. Her scholarship has appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association; the Journal of Planning, Education, and Research; Urban Studies; Economic Development Quarterly; and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, among many other publications. Dr. Wolf-Powers is an academic advisor to the Urban Manufacturing Alliance and the Editorial Director of Metropolitics.org, an on-line journal based at CUNY’s Center for Urban Research and closely affiliated with the Paris-based Metropolitiques. aw2416@hunter.cuny.edu