American Urban Politics in a Global Age
ISBN: 9780205251759 | 0205251757
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 3/1/2012
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Updated in its 7thedition, American Urban Politicsprovides historical context and contemporary commentaries on the economy, politics, culture and identity of American cities. Bringing together a selection of readings that represent some of the most important trends and topics in urban scholarship today this seventh edition examines the ability of highly autonomous local governments to grapple with the serious challenges of recent years, challenges such as the stresses of the lingering economic crisis, and a series of recent natural disasters.
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| Preface | p. ix |
| Editors' Introductory Essay: Governing the Metropolis in the Global Era | p. 1 |
| Globalization and the Economic Imperative | |
| Studying Urban Governance in a Global Age | p. 8 |
| The Interests of the Limited City | p. 10 |
| Urban Regimes | p. 20 |
| The Regime Moment: The Brief but Storied Career of Urban Regimes in American Cities | p. 35 |
| The New Urban Economy and Loc... MORE | p. 47 |
| Cities in the International Marketplace | p. 48 |
| Globalization and Leadership in American Cities | p. 62 |
| Rethinking the Politics of Downtown Development | p. 73 |
| The Politics of Urban Development | p. 91 |
| Why Do Cities Decline? | p. 93 |
| Culture, Art, and Downtown Development | p. 107 |
| Can Politicians Bargain with Business? | p. 120 |
| "Re-stating" Theories of Urban Development | p. 133 |
| Governing the Multiethnic Metropolis | |
| The Cities: Governing Factional Polities | p. 156 |
| Minority Groups and Coalitional Politics | p. 159 |
| Black Incumbents and a Declining Racial Divide | p. 184 |
| Paradoxes of Integration | p. 198 |
| As Mayors Take Charge: School Politics in the City | p. 214 |
| The Suburbs: Politics in a Changing Political Landscape | p. 226 |
| Immigration and the New Metropolitan Geography | p. 228 |
| Right to the Suburb? | p. 251 |
| The Ethnic Diversity of Boomburbs | p. 275 |
| Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles | p. 287 |
| The Politics of Urban Resilience | |
| Fiscal Strain and Reform in a Federal System | p. 298 |
| City Futures: Economic Crisis and the American Model of Urban Development | p. 300 |
| Fiscal Stress Faced by Local Governments | p. 312 |
| City Fiscal Conditions in 2011 | p. 323 |
| Sprawl and Regional Solutions | p. 332 |
| Building Consensus | p. 334 |
| Growth Management | p. 340 |
| Is Urban Sprawl a Problem? | p. 356 |
| The Politics of Urban Resilience | p. 364 |
| Cities in a Time of Terror | p. 366 |
| The Political Economy of Disaster Assistance | p. 383 |
| Politics, Federalism, and the Recovery Process in New Orleans | p. 389 |
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