Myron A. Levine is Professor Emeritus in the Urban Affairs, Political Science, and Public Administration programs in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at Wright State University, USA. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and various other urban studies and political science journals. He is the editor of Taking Sides: Urban Affairs and of a number of the volumes in the Annual Editions: Urban Society series. He has received Fulbright Foundation fellowships to study and teach in the Netherlands, Germany, Latvia, and the Slovak Republic, as well as an NEH award to study in France.

Heywood T. Sanders is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His previous works include Convention Center Follies (2015), Urban Texas: Politics and Development (co-edited with Char Miller, 2000), and The Politics of Urban Development (co-edited with Clarence N. Stone, 1987). He has also published articles in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and Economic Development Quarterly. The Brookings Institution published his Space Available: The Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy in 2005.