The urban crisis—poverty and inequality, un—and under-employment, inadequate and unaffordable housing and public transportation, pollution and climate disasters—is the result of the failure of the neoliberal agenda to produce adequate funds and capacities to ensure the provision of services necessary for the city to function and its residents to thrive, especially the most vulnerable, and increasingly, the middle class. In the last few years, there appears to be a potential for a new more radical direction in urban policy. Yet, urban scholars and practitioners have been slow to notice the new possibilities that reopens the question of whether cities may engage in redistributive policies. In reviewing the history and current practice of progressive politics and policy in cities, this paper explores what a policy agenda for a progressive city might entail and identifies themes and questions for a renewed urban politics research agenda.

新自由主义议程未能产生足够的资金和能力来确保提供服务的结果是城市危机（贫困与不平等，失业，就业不足，住房和公共交通不足，负担不起，污染和气候灾害）是城市运作和居民蓬勃发展所必需的，尤其是最弱势且越来越多的中产阶级。在过去的几年中，似乎有可能在城市政策中提出新的，更激进的方向。然而，城市学者和从业者一直很慢地注意到新的可能性，从而重新提出了城市是否可以参与再分配政策的问题。在回顾城市进步政治和政策的历史和当前实践时，