1. How DC Went from Redlining to Disinvestment to Mass Incarceration to Gentrification in Less than 100 Years. • Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced.

2. "They Seem to Have Their Own Agenda": the City, the State, and the Fight for Local Autonomy • Kathleen Nganga, Johns Hopkins University.

3. The 1960s Urban Uprisings and the Evolution of “Riot” as an American Legal Concept, 1901-2021 • Tina Law, CUNY Graduate Center.

4. Agglomeration over the Long Run: Evidence from County Seat Wars • Cory Smith, University of Maryland; Amrita Kulka, University of Warwick.