The Dependent City Revisited is an accessible, provocative supplement for a wide variety of courses in urban studies and political economy. It focuses on economic development and social welfare policies to reveal the key dilemmas of American urban politics.

Paul Kantor is professor of political science at Fordham University.

Preface -- The Dependent City and Urban Politics -- The Emergence of the Dependent City: Mercantile Democracy -- Industrial Democracy: The Independent City -- The Postindustrial Political Economy: The New Dependent City -- Urban Entrepreneurship: The Mainstream of Community Development -- The Politics of Decline and Conversion: Central Cities -- Growth and Dependency: The Politics of Suburbia and the Sunbelt -- The Governmentalization of Inequality -- Can Dependent Cities Redistribute? -- The Future of the Dependent City