Bringing together a selection of readings that represent some of the most important trends and topics in urban scholarship today, American Urban Politics in a Global Age provides historical context and contemporary commentaries on the economy, politics, culture, and identity of American cities.

Annika Marlen Hinze is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Urban Studies at Fordham University, USA. Her research and teaching focus on urban politics, identity politics, immigration, qualitative and mixed methods research, and gender politics in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Turkey.

James M. Smith is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Master of Public Affairs program at Indiana University South Bend, USA. His research focuses on urban governance and institutions in U.S. cities, and he teaches courses in the Political Science Department focused on American political institutions, and in the Master of Public Affairs program on urban planning and public policy.

Preface

Editors' Introductory Essay

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:

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

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

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?

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 Delbé

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

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

Benjamin R. Barber