Cities—and urban managers—are resilient in the face of their many challenges. Managing Urban America, now in its seventh edition, guides students through the politics of urban management—doing less with more while managing conflict, delivering goods and services, responding to federal and state mandates, adapting to changing demographics, and coping with economic and budgetary woes.

Fully revised, this new edition:

• highlights the economic difficulties cities currently face, and how they will rebound;

• expands significantly upon the concept of e-government, and offers numerous examples in both theory and practice;

• integrates what were once competing models of government (REGO, NPM, NPS, and TPA) into what the authors call the Modern Public Management (MPM) model, which draws on the positive aspects of each to better manage the modern city;

• includes many new case studies, including some with a global perspective as the authors examine the management of international cities; and

• thoroughly updates all data and scholarship.

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Part I. The Environment of Urban Management
1. Managing American Cities in the Twenty-first Century
2. Cities and the System of Intergovernmental Relations
3. Urban Political Structure

Part II. Managing Conflict and Delivering Goods and Services in the Modern City
4. Urban Policymaking
5. Urban Planning and Development
6. Decision Making and Analysis
7. Urban Service Delivery

Part III. Internal Management Processes
8. The Management Process: Theory and Practice
9. Managing Human Resources
10. Finance and Budget

Part IV. The Urban Future
11. Managing the Urban Future

Managing Urban America is a classic. It is well organized, comprehensive, and timely. Students consistently give it high marks in their course evaluations. The inclusion of current real problems and issues in the policy and practices side bars keep the reader interested and help them see the importance of the chapter topics. It is a great text for undergraduates and graduates alike.

England, Pelissero, and Morgan’s Managing Urban America has been the best text in its field for some time. It is an excellent integration of academic literature with direct experience of practitioners, and engages very well with emerging issues in the field, such as information technology. It is a pleasure to read. It would be my first choice as the main text in a course on Urban Administration, and because of its broad perspective, it would be a useful text in a more general Public Administration course as well.

The new edition should be a timely reader for students interested in how cities perform under fiscal stress, enhancing our understanding of the decision-making dynamics of urban administration.

Robert E. England is professor of political science at Oklahoma State University. He is the author or coauthor of several books and book chapters. His research has appeared in a number of journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Politics, and Public Administration Review.

John P. Pelissero is professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago. He is the editor of Cities, Politics, and Policy: A Comparative Analysis (2003) and the author of numerous articles on cities. His recent research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and Urban Affairs Review.

David R. Morgan is professor emeritus at the University of Oklahoma where he was the Henry Bellmon Chair of Public Service and professor of political science. He spent five years in local government including service as the first city manager of Yukon, Oklahoma.