James Q. Wilson, editor, The Metropolitan Enigma: Inquiries into the Nature and Dimensions of America's "Urban Crisis" (Harvard University Press, 1967, 1968; revised edition,1970).

In January 1966, the Task Force on Economic Growth and Opportunity of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies to assemble a series of background papers on urban issues. Wilson, then the center’s director, assembled an all-star cast of experts of the day in what would become an indispensable resource for urbanists. Among many notable contributions, it contains Wilson’s mentor Edward C. Banfield’s famous essay, “Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit.”