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Introduction: revival and inequality -- The rise and fall of the American industrial city -- Millennials, immigrants, and the shrinking middle class -- From factories to "eds and meds" -- Race, poverty, and real estate -- Gentrification and its discontents -- Sliding downhill: the other side of the neighborhood change -- The other postindustrial America: small cities, mill towns, and struggling suburbs -- Empty houses and distressed neighborhoods: confronting the challenge of place -- Jobs and education: the struggle to escape the poverty trap -- Power and politics: finding the will to change -- A path to inclusion and opportunity.

Recent years have seen unprecedented revitalization in many of America's older industrial cities. The dynamics of revitalization, however, have tended to concentrate population and job growth in small parts of the city to the exclusion of the rest of the city, manifested in an uncoupling of the "economic city," the city as a locus of economic activity, from the city's population, leading in turn to growing economic and racial inequality within the city. As cities become increasingly polarized by race and income, this uncoupling has had particularly adverse consequences for these cities' African-American populations. This article studies trends over the past decade in a cluster of 10 cities, including Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and others, and explores the implications of increasing polarization for these cities' future.