The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era

In the twenty—first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to Oakland and elsewhere commentators saw cities rising again. Yet revitalization generated a second urban crisis marked by growing inequality and civil unrest reminiscent of the upheavals associated with the first urban crisis in the mid—twentieth century. The urban poor and residents of color ha...