Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Copyright -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part One: Overview -- Cities and the Great Recession -- Part Two: White Papers -- Building the Local Social Safety Net in an Era of Fiscal Constraint -- Resilient Economic Development -- How Cities Collaborate While Competing in the New Economy -- The Legacy Costs of Earlier Decisions -- Part Three: Summary -- Conversations with Local Policy Officials -- Part Four: Policy Experiments -- What Now? -- Contributors.