City Politics has received praise for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme - that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity.

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, the politics of immigration, qualitative methods, urban economic development, poverty, and minority politics in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Turkey.

Dennis R. Judd is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. For many years he has been a leading contributor to the literature on urban political economy, urban economic development, national urban policy, and urban revitalization. Over the last four decades he has brought his urban politics research together in his pioneering textbook, City Politics, and he has published pioneering research on urban tourism.

1. City Politics in America: An Introduction PART I THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN URBAN POLITICS: THE FIRST CENTURY 2. The Enduring Legacy 3. Party Machines and the Immigrants 4. The Reform Crusades 5. Urban Voters and the Rise of a National Democratic Majority PART II THE URBAN CRISIS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 6. Federal Policy, Race, and the Emerging Urban/Suburban Divide 7. Federal Programs, the Democrats, and the Politics of Racism 8. Federal Programs and the Divisive Politics of Race 9. Changing Demographics: The Rise of the Sunbelt, the Changing Suburbs, and the Emerging "Rural-Urban Divide" PART III THE FRACTURED METROPOLIS 10. The Changing Metropolis 11. Economic and Fiscal Realities of the Metropolitan Mosaic 12. Cities and the Challenges of Climate Change 13. Governing the Divided Metropolis 14. Epilogue: Cities After the Year 2020: A Year of Upheaval, Reckoning, and Change