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of Rust Belt decline. It is also interdisciplinary in nature, covering the politics of decline, race and class, housing, land use, and planning, among other things. The book’s comprehensiveness and readability make it highly suitable for both an academic and practitioner audience. For the former, the book adds new analyses and frameworks for understanding and interpreting urban decline. It would also be a particularly useful addition to courses addressing the politics of urban development and/or race and social justice in the city. Individual chapters of the book could be included on reading lists for sessions on rightsizing plans, Detroit as the epitome of decline, the history of decline, and so forth. It can serve as a launching point for more deeply exploring how the national, state, and local forces that Hackworth focuses on have driven and continue to perpetuate decline across a range of cities. For practitioners, the book can help inform the development of policies and strategies aimed at countering the powerful forces working against Rust Belt cities. While Hackworth does not really offer implementable recommendations for practitioners, understanding the forces that create decline has the power to contribute to more positive solutions for this subset of U.S. cities. Overall, Hackworth’s Manufacturing Decline is a valuable addition to the shrinking cities literature and should be required reading for anyone interested in the forces that contributed to, and continue to perpetuate, decline across the American Rust Belt.