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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Evolution of Urban Politics in America

(10)

1 The Political Economy of Cities

(40)

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Paul E. Peterson

1. The Interests of the Limited City

(11)

Clarence N. Stone

2. Urban Regimes: A Research Perspective

(15)

Robert W. Bailey

3. Beyond Regime Theory: Economism and [Sexual] Identity in Urban Politics

(7)

Sharon Zukin

4. The Cultures of Cities

(5)

PART ONE THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN URBAN POLITICS

(115)

2 The Mercantile Cities

(28)

Sam Bass Warner

5. The Environment of Private Opportunity

(8)

Richard C. Wade

6. The Urban Frontier

(10)

Ira Katznelson

7. City Trenches

(9)

3 Machine Politics

(43)

William L. Riordon

8. "To Hold Your District: Study Human Nature and Act Accordin'"

(3)

Robert K. Merton

9. The Latent Functions of the Machine

(8)

Alan DiGaetano

10. The Rise and Development of Urban Political Machines: An Alternative to Merton's Functional Analysis

(15)

Steven P. Erie

11. Big-City Rainbow Politics: Machines Revividus?

106

(16)

4 Reform Politics

122

(44)

Andrew D. White

12. City Affairs Are Not Political

123

(3)

Samuel P. Hays

13. The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era

126

(19)

Amy Bridges

14. Winning the West to Municipal Reform

145

(21)

PART TWO THE POLITICS OF THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CITY

166

(70)

5 The Suburbs

166

(31)

Lynn M. Appleton

15. The Gender Regimes of American Cities

168

(12)

Herbert J. Gans

16. The Planners of Levittown

180

(9)

Joel Garreau

17. Edge City

189

(3)

Evan McKenzie

18. Trouble in Privatopia

192

(5)

6 The Central Cities

197

(39)

Christopher Howard

19. Michael Lipsky, and Dale Rogers Marshall Citizen Participation in Urban Politics: Rise and Routinization

199

(11)

Carl Abbott

20. The Political Transformation of Sunbelt Cities

210

(13)

Barbara Ferman

21. Chicago: Power, Race, and Reform

223

(13)

PART THREE PROBLEMS AND POLICY ISSUES OF THE 1990s

236

7 Entrepreneurial Cities and Growth Politics

236

(71)

Richard Foglesong

22. When Disney Comes to Town

238

(4)

Dennis R. Judd

23. Constructing the Tourist Bubble

242

(21)

Nicholas Lemann

24. The Myth of Community Development

263

(9)

Todd Swanstrom

25. Semisovereign Cities: The Politics of Urban Development

272

(16)

Paul Kantor

H. V. Savitch

26. Can Politicians Bargain with Business? A Theoretical and Comparative Perspective on Urban Development

288

(19)

8 The New Inequalities

307

(46)

27. Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

308

(9)

Mike Davis

28. Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space

317

(18)

Joel A. Devine

James D. Wright

29. The Greatest of Evils: Urban Poverty and the American Underclass

335

(18)

9 National Policy and Local Governments

353

Paul E. Peterson

30. Who Should Do What? Divided Responsibility in the Federal System

354

(7)

John E. Schwarz

Thomas J. Volgy

31. A View from City Hall

361

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