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.

• PrefaceEditors’ Introductory EssayPart I: Governance and Political Economy1. The Pillars of American Urban Scholarship in a Global AgeEditors’ IntroductionSelection 1 All Politics is Local: The Reemergence of the Study of City PoliticsJessica TrounstineSelection 2 The Interests of the Limited CityPaul E. PetersonSelection 3 The Future of Urban Regime StudiesClarence N. StoneSelection 4 Why History (Still) Matters: Time and Temporality in Urban Political AnalysisJoel Rast2. The Politics of Urban Economic Development in a New EraEditors’ IntroductionSelection 5 Techs and the Cities: A New Economic Development Paradigm?Gary Sands, Pierre Filion and Laura A. ReeseSelection 6 Can Politicians Bargain with Business?Paul Kantor and H. V. SavitchSelection 7 “Re-Stating” Theories of Urban DevelopmentJames M. Smith3. Public Power and Private Influence in Contemporary CitiesEditors’ IntroductionSelection 8 The Mauling of Public SpaceMargaret KohnSelection 9 Beyond Community and Sharing: The Case of Airbnb in New York CityKatharina Knaus and Peer IllnerSelection 10 What Are Charter Schools and Do They Deliver?Jon ValantPart II: The Challenges of Governing the Divided Metropolis4. Governing Factional Polities in America’s Urban CentersEditors’ IntroductionSelection 11 Immigrants and Politics in San FranciscoEls de GraauwSelection 12 White Power, Black BrokersMary PattilloSelection 13 A Descriptive Analysis of Female Mayors: The U.S. and Texas in Comparative PerspectiveMelissa Marschall5. Urban Resilience, Sustainability, and Climate ChangeEditors’ IntroductionSelection 14 Is Detroit Dead?Peter EisingerSelection 15 Do-It-Yourself CitiesKimberley KinderSelection 16 Air Conditioning Will Not Save UsEric Dean WilsonSelection 17 A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake: The Climate Crisis Haunts Chicago’s FutureDan EganSelection 18 Civil Society and Sustainable CitiesKent E. Portney and Jeffrey Berry6. Governance, Gentrification, and NeighborhoodsEditors’ IntroductionSelection 19 What is Wrong with Gentrification?Margaret KohnSelection 20 Gentrifier? Who, Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the MirrorJohn Joe Schlichtman and Jason PatchPart III: Crises and Ways Forward7. The Year 2020 and Its AftermathEditors’ IntroductionSelection 21 The EpicenterDan Barry, Annie Correal and Todd HeislerSelection 22 Structurally Vulnerable Neighborhood Environments and Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 InequitiesRachel L. Berkowitz, Xing Gao, Eli K. Michaels and Mahasin S. MujahidSelection 23 COVID-19 Cases in New York City, a Neighborhood-Level AnalysisThe Stoop, NYU Furman Center BlogSelection 24 Where Do Black Lives Matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, WisconsinJenna M Loyd and Anne Bonds8. Cities in Control? Finding Solutions to Broad IssuesEditors’ IntroductionSelection 25 5 Ways Cities Led in Pandemic RecoveryLindsey VolzSelection 26 New Data Reveal Most Populous Cities Experienced Some of the Largest DecreasesAmel Toukabri and Crystal DelbéSelection 27 Big Cities Aren’t Dividing America. They Hold the Key to Our Collective FutureAmy Liu and Alan BerubeSelection 28 If Mayors Ruled the World: Why They Should and How They Already DoBenjamin R. Barber

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.

• PrefaceEditors’ Introductory EssayPart I: Governance and Political Economy1. The Pillars of American Urban Scholarship in a Global AgeEditors’ IntroductionSelection 1 All Politics is Local: The Reemergence of the Study of City PoliticsJessica TrounstineSelection 2 The Interests of the Limited CityPaul E. PetersonSelection 3 The Future of Urban Regime StudiesClarence N. StoneSelection 4 Why History (Still) Matters: Time and Temporality in Urban Political AnalysisJoel Rast2. The Politics of Urban Economic Development in a New EraEditors’ IntroductionSelection 5 Techs and the Cities: A New Economic Development Paradigm?Gary Sands, Pierre Filion and Laura A. ReeseSelection 6 Can Politicians Bargain with Business?Paul Kantor and H. V. SavitchSelection 7 “Re-Stating” Theories of Urban DevelopmentJames M. Smith3. Public Power and Private Influence in Contemporary CitiesEditors’ IntroductionSelection 8 The Mauling of Public SpaceMargaret KohnSelection 9 Beyond Community and Sharing: The Case of Airbnb in New York CityKatharina Knaus and Peer IllnerSelection 10 What Are Charter Schools and Do They Deliver?Jon ValantPart II: The Challenges of Governing the Divided Metropolis4. Governing Factional Polities in America’s Urban CentersEditors’ IntroductionSelection 11 Immigrants and Politics in San FranciscoEls de GraauwSelection 12 White Power, Black BrokersMary PattilloSelection 13 A Descriptive Analysis of Female Mayors: The U.S. and Texas in Comparative PerspectiveMelissa Marschall5. Urban Resilience, Sustainability, and Climate ChangeEditors’ IntroductionSelection 14 Is Detroit Dead?Peter EisingerSelection 15 Do-It-Yourself CitiesKimberley KinderSelection 16 Air Conditioning Will Not Save UsEric Dean WilsonSelection 17 A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake: The Climate Crisis Haunts Chicago’s FutureDan EganSelection 18 Civil Society and Sustainable CitiesKent E. Portney and Jeffrey Berry6. Governance, Gentrification, and NeighborhoodsEditors’ IntroductionSelection 19 What is Wrong with Gentrification?Margaret KohnSelection 20 Gentrifier? Who, Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the MirrorJohn Joe Schlichtman and Jason PatchPart III: Crises and Ways Forward7. The Year 2020 and Its AftermathEditors’ IntroductionSelection 21 The EpicenterDan Barry, Annie Correal and Todd HeislerSelection 22 Structurally Vulnerable Neighborhood Environments and Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 InequitiesRachel L. Berkowitz, Xing Gao, Eli K. Michaels and Mahasin S. MujahidSelection 23 COVID-19 Cases in New York City, a Neighborhood-Level AnalysisThe Stoop, NYU Furman Center BlogSelection 24 Where Do Black Lives Matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, WisconsinJenna M Loyd and Anne Bonds8. Cities in Control? Finding Solutions to Broad IssuesEditors’ IntroductionSelection 25 5 Ways Cities Led in Pandemic RecoveryLindsey VolzSelection 26 New Data Reveal Most Populous Cities Experienced Some of the Largest DecreasesAmel Toukabri and Crystal DelbéSelection 27 Big Cities Aren’t Dividing America. They Hold the Key to Our Collective FutureAmy Liu and Alan BerubeSelection 28 If Mayors Ruled the World: Why They Should and How They Already DoBenjamin R. Barber