Cities, Change, and Conflict A Political Economy of Urban Life

This popular text features new coverage of recent developmentsimplications of racial conflicts like Ferguson, Mo., presidential urban strategies, new waves of refugees to Europe, longer term impacts of the Great Recession, new and emerging inequalities, coverage of Sampson’s Great American City, and more. Grounded in history, political economy, and human ecology, the text focuses on the US with chapters on European and developing-country cities. It analyzes urban life among immigrants, African Americans, women, and various social classes. Highlighting functions of cities, it depicts workings of the urban economy, local and federal governments, the criminal justice system, and policy.