John Mollenkopf, coeditor of Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration:
As a sophisticated observer and influential participant in urban policy making, McGahey makes a powerful case that inequality hampers and warps urban economic development and offers fruitful insights as to its sources and possible remedies. He offers a frank assessment of how economic thinking can (or cannot) guide us on ways to improve policies and outcomes.

Michelle DePass, former CEO and past president, Meyer Memorial Trust:
America’s cities drive economic growth, but at the unfair price of pervasive inequality. Richard McGahey’s book shows us that’s no accident. His economic analysis shows equality and growth can be linked, and the book’s case studies and policy ideas can help change makers and philanthropic leaders in their fight for shared prosperity.

Joan Fitzgerald, author of Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change:
Unequal Cities offers a definitive account of anti-city bias in federal and state policy. The meticulously researched analysis of how activists and elected officials in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York attempted to pursue policies to create a more equitable city reveals that cities cannot accomplish structural changes, including addressing racism, in an environment in which policy is stacked against them.

Darrick Hamilton, founding director, Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy, The New School:
Richard McGahey’s book shows what many economists and pundits get wrong in both downplaying and justifying the severe inequality of power, resources, and outcomes, which is clearly tied to race and racism, within America’s cities and metro regions. Unequal Cities will help policy makers and change advocates avoid the mistakes of the past and devise solutions for more inclusive futures.