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City Politics : The Political Economy of Urban America

ISBN: 9780321010995 | 032101099X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 12/1/1997

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Table of Contents
Prefaceix
Chapter 1 The Politics of American Cities: An Introduction
1(12)
The Influence of Privatism
1(2)
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The Expanding Responsibilities of City Governments
3(2)
The Complex Task of Governance
5(3)
The Politics of Choice
8(2)
The Politics of Secession
10(3)
Part I CONTESTED TERRAIN: POLITICAL CONFLICT IN THE CITIES13(120)
Chapter 2 The Private City and Local Democracy: The Political Legacy of the Nineteenth Century
15(38)
National Development and the Cities
15(1)
The Urbanization of America
16(4)
The Competition for Urban Growth
20(5)
The Breakdown of Community: Industrialization
25(2)
The Breakdown of Community: Transportation
27(3)
The Breakdown of Community: Immigration
30(5)
Social Darwinism and the Ideology of Success
35(2)
The Increasing Importance of Municipal Services
37(5)
The Fight for Control of City Governments
42(2)
The Political Isolation of the Cities
44(9)
Chapter 3 Party Machines and Political Entrepreneurs
53(26)
Machines and Machine-Style Politics
53(1)
The Origins of Machine Politics
54(4)
James Pendergast: A Political Entrepreneur in Action
58(2)
Did Machines Centralize Power and "Get the Job Done"?
60(4)
Were Machines Vehicles of Upward Mobility?
64(2)
Did the Machines Help the Immigrants Assimilate?
66(2)
The Social Reform Alternative
68(4)
Machine Politics in Today's Cities
72(7)
Chapter 4 The Struggle for Political Control: The Reform Legacy
79(32)
The Motive for Reform
79(2)
The Reform Environment
81(3)
The Campaigns Against Machine Rule
84(8)
"Efficiency and Economy" in Municipal Affairs
92(3)
The Business Model
95(3)
Commission and Manager Government
98(3)
The Bias of Municipal Reform
101(2)
Did Reform Kill the Machines?
103(1)
The Reform Legacy and the Politics of Representation
104(7)
Chapter 5 The New Deal Coalition and the Cities
111(22)
The Changing Political Balance
111(1)
The Political Isolation of Cities
112(3)
The New Urban Consciousness
115(1)
The Urban Wing of the Democratic Party
116(3)
The Depression and the Cities
119(4)
The Cities in the Intergovernmental System
123(5)
The Cities in National Politics
128(5)
Part II THE CITY IN NATIONAL POLITICS133(126)
Chapter 6 The Rise of the Divided Metropolis
135(41)
The Roots of the Urban Crisis
135(3)
The Great Migration: From the Farm to the City
138(5)
The New Immigrants
143(8)
Concentrated Poverty
151(5)
The Suburbs and the Urban Crisis
156(12)
The Railroad and Streetcar Suburbs: 1815-1918
157(3)
The First Automobile Suburbs: 1918-1945
160(1)
The Bedroom Suburbs: 1946-1965
161(4)
The Enclave Suburbs: 1965-Present
165(3)
The Great Divide
168(8)
Chapter 7 National Policy and the Divided Metropolis
176(37)
National Policies and Urban Development
176(1)
Housing Slums and Racial Segregation
177(4)
The Struggle Over Public Housing
181(3)
Urban Renewal and Its Problems
184(3)
The Urban Renewal Steamroller
187(3)
Public Housing: Urban Renewal's Stepchild
190(2)
The Legacy of Inner-City Programs
192(2)
National Policy and the Suburbs
194(5)
The Weak Policies of the Post-Civil Rights Era
199(2)
The Suburban Bias in National Transportation Policies
201(4)
The Contradictory Effects of National Urban Policy
205(8)
Chapter 8 The Rise and Fall of National Urban Policy
213(46)
The Politics of National Urban Policy
213(1)
The Federal Role Under Two Democratic Presidents
214(9)
The Great Society Programs: Between Image and Reality
219(2)
The Backlash Against Urban Programs
221(2)
The Decentralization of Urban Programs
223(8)
No Strings Attached: The Revenue-Sharing Program
224(3)
Streamlining Government: The Housing and Community Development Act
227(4)
President Carter and the Decline of Urban Policy
231(4)
The Reagan/Bush Urban Policy: Survival of the Fittest
235(7)
Urban Enterprise Zones
240(2)
Urban Policy in the Clinton Era
242(6)
The Waning Political Influence of Cities
248(11)
Part III URBAN POLITICS AND THE FRACTURING OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL COMMUNITY259(176)
Chapter 9 The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities
261(30)
The Concept of the Sunbelt
261(3)
The Rise of the Sunbelt
264(5)
The Changing Political Balance
269(2)
Why the Sunbelt Boomed
271(4)
Regional Conflict: Sunbelt Versus Frostbelt
275(2)
Politics in Sunbelt Cities: Growth Mania
277(1)
The Growth Control Movement
278(3)
Challenging the Growth Regimes: The Neighborhood Movement
281(3)
The Future of Urban Politics in the Sunbelt
284(7)
Chapter 10 The Politics of Secession: The Suburbs
291(33)
The Governmental Fragmentation of America's Urban Areas
291(2)
The Motive to Separate from the Cities
293(3)
The Entrepreneurial Shaping of Suburbia
296(9)
Suburban Governments and Zoning
305(3)
The National Challenge to Exclusionary Zoning
308(3)
New Jersey's Challenge to Exclusionary Zoning
311(3)
Yonkers: Segregated Housing in the Suburbs
314(1)
The Costs of Exclusion
315(9)
Chapter 11 Fiscal Crisis and the Problems of Governance
324(31)
The Roots of the Urban Fiscal Crisis
324(2)
City Expenditures
326(7)
City Revenues
333(5)
Municipal Bonds
338(2)
The Ratings Game
340(3)
A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Chicago
343(5)
The Political Sources of Urban Fiscal Stress
348(7)
Chapter 12 Revitalizing Cities: The Growth Imperative
355(35)
An Urban Renaissance
355(2)
Why Cities Pursue Growth
357(3)
The Changing Economic Fortunes of the Central Cities
360(5)
The Corporate Center Strategy: The Baltimore Example
365(4)
The Development of Urban Tourism
369(15)
Convention Centers
370(4)
Sports Stadiums
374(6)
Enclosed Malls
380(1)
Casino Gaming
381(3)
The New Downtown Economies
384(6)
Chapter 13 Keeping the Peace: The Challenge of Urban Governance
390(35)
The Delicate Task of Governance
390(3)
Minority Mayors and the Dilemmas of Rainbow Politics
393(3)
Does Political Incorporation Make a Difference?
396(6)
The Rise of the Neighborhood Organizing Movement
402(3)
From Protest to Politics
405(5)
Neighborhood Nonprofits and City Politics
410(3)
Urban Conservatism
413(6)
Finding a Consensus
419(6)
Chapter 14 The Urban Future: Secession or Community?
425(10)
Interdependencies
425(1)
The Rise of Urban Enclaves
426(1)
Are Cities Obsolete?
427(2)
The Costs of Sprawl
429(2)
The Urban Future
431(4)
Index435

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