Jill Simone Gross is a Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and Director of the graduate program in Urban Policy and Leadership. She has served as President of the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and Chair of the Urban Affairs Association. She conducted research on the urban governance of migration as a European Union Fulbright Schuman Scholar. She is currently on the editorial boards of Journal Of Race, Ethnicity & The City and Urban Affairs Review. Her most recent works are Hyperlocal Place Governance in a Fragmented World (2022) and Constructing Metropolitan Space (coeditor) (2019).

1. Introduction: New York as a megacity

2. Crises, breakdowns and New York's endurance

3. Building a global megacity: corporate-centered urban development and leaderships

4. Expanded governance in the megacity

5. Neighborhoods, diversification and gentrification in the megacity

6. Globalization in the megacity

7. Conclusions