(Re)Generating Inclusive Cities

If the post-World War II period was the era of the suburbs, the current historical moment belongs to the city. In Canada and the US, young people and empty nesters are flocking to the great urban centers, which are growing in both affluence and inequality. The poor are pushed out to decaying inner ring suburbs or corralled in city neighborhoods that are coming under increasing pressure to gentrify as the cost of living in New York, Montreal, San Francisco and Vancouver skyrockets. (Re)Generating Inclusive Cities draws our attention to all of the complexities and contradictions that come with this package. From Zuberi and Taylor, we learn about the power (and problems) of mega projects like the High Line, the difficulties of brownfield reclamation, and the social and political challenges of mixed income housing. They challenge received wisdom about hyper-urbanization, force our attention to social policy differences that separate Canada and the US and hence inflect the unfolding of common pressures of globalization and neo-liberal policy making. It is a forceful, intelligent, empirically grounded work that all urban scholars will appreciate. Katherine Newman, Torrey Little Professor of Sociology and Provost University of Massachusetts, Amherst