Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review with a Look at the 1970s and Street-Level Bureaucracy.

This document is a letter from the editor of the Urban Affairs Review, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the journal. The letter highlights the influential article by Michael Lipsky, "Street Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform," published in 1971. The article examines the concept of street-level bureaucracy, focusing on the interactions between bureaucrats and citizens in urban settings. It discusses the challenges faced by street-level bureaucrats, such as inadequate resources and contradictory job expectations, and how these challenges can lead to biased and discriminatory behaviors. The letter also mentions other articles in the journal that have expanded on Lipsky's work and applied the concept of street-level bureaucracy to different contexts. Overall, the article emphasizes the evolution and continued relevance of the concept in the study of urban politics. [Extracted from the article]