American Urban Politics in a Global Age

Preface

Editors' Introductory Essay

Part I: Governance and Political Economy

1. The Pillars of American Urban Scholarship in a Global Age

Editors' Introduction

Selection 1 All Politics is Local: The Reemergence of the Study of City Politics

Jessica Trounstine

Selection 2 The Interests of the Limited City

Paul E. Peterson

Selection 3 The Future of Urban Regime Studies

Clarence N. Stone

Selection 4 Why History (Still) Matters: Time and Temporality in Urban Political Analysis

Joel Rast

2. The Politics of Urban Economic Development in a New Era

Editors' Introduction

Selection 5 Techs and the Cities: A New Economic Development Paradigm?

Gary Sands, Pierre Filion and Laura A. Reese

Selection 6 Can Politicians Bargain with Business?

Paul Kantor and H. V. Savitch

Selection 7 "Re-Stating" Theories of Urban Development

James M. Smith

3. Public Power and Private Influence in Contemporary Cities

Editors' Introduction

Selection 8 The Mauling of Public Space

Margaret Kohn

Selection 9 Beyond Community and Sharing: The Case of Airbnb in New York City

Katharina Knaus and Peer Illner

Selection 10 What Are Charter Schools and Do They Deliver?

Jon Valant

Part II: The Challenges of Governing the Divided Metropolis

4. Governing Factional Polities in America's Urban Centers

Editors' Introduction

Selection 11 Immigrants and Politics in San Francisco

Els de Graauw

Selection 12 White Power, Black Brokers

Mary Pattillo

Selection 13 A Descriptive Analysis of Female Mayors: The U.S. and Texas in Comparative Perspective

Melissa Marschall

5. Urban Resilience, Sustainability, and Climate Change

Editors' Introduction

Selection 14 Is Detroit Dead?

Peter Eisinger

Selection 15 Do-It-Yourself Cities

Kimberley Kinder

Selection 16 Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us

Eric Dean Wilson

Selection 17 A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake: The Climate Crisis Haunts Chicago's Future

Dan Egan

Selection 18 Civil Society and Sustainable Cities

Kent E. Portney and Jeffrey Berry

6. Governance, Gentrification, and Neighborhoods

Editors' Introduction

Selection 19 What is Wrong with Gentrification?

Margaret Kohn

Selection 20 Gentrifier? Who, Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the Mirror

John Joe Schlichtman and Jason Patch

Part III: Crises and Ways Forward

7. The Year 2020 and Its Aftermath

Editors' Introduction

Selection 21 The Epicenter

Dan Barry, Annie Correal and Todd Heisler

Selection 22 Structurally Vulnerable Neighborhood Environments and Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Inequities

Rachel L. Berkowitz, Xing Gao, Eli K. Michaels and Mahasin S. Mujahid

Selection 23 COVID-19 Cases in New York City, a Neighborhood-Level Analysis

The Stoop, NYU Furman Center Blog

Selection 24 Where Do Black Lives Matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Jenna M Loyd and Anne Bonds

8. Cities in Control? Finding Solutions to Broad Issues

Editors' Introduction

Selection 25 5 Ways Cities Led in Pandemic Recovery

Lindsey Volz

Selection 26 New Data Reveal Most Populous Cities Experienced Some of the Largest Decreases

Amel Toukabri and Crystal Delbe

Selection 27 Big Cities Aren't Dividing America. They Hold the Key to Our Collective Future

Amy Liu and Alan Berube

Selection 28 If Mayors Ruled the World: Why They Should and How They Already Do

Benjamin R. Barber