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Urban America Reconsidered
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban America. Plagued by ineffectual and inegalitarian governance, acute social problems such as extreme poverty, and social and economic injustice, many American cities suffer a fate similar to that of New Orleans before and after the hurricane. Gentrification and corporate redevelopment schemes merely distract from this disturbing reality. Compounding this tragedy is a failure in urban analysis and scholarship. Little has been offered in the way of...
Reconstructing City Politics
Almost two decades of research in U.S. city politics has produced a compelling empirical account of the nature of urban governance revolving around the alliance of business interests and local public officials. In Reconstructing City Politics, author David L. Imbroscio urges that urban political economy must now move forward beyond the question of "what is?" to a consideration of "what might be?" He systematically poses the possibilities for reconstructing the nature of contemporary city politics, while integrating a wealth of innovative urban analysis. To bring about this reconstruction, Imbroscio explores three comprehensive alternative urban economic development strategies--entrepreneuria...
Theories of Urban Politics
′Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of Theories of Urban Politics. Insightful analysis of scholarship on traditional topics is supplemented by chapters on nontraditional topics, including the new institutionalism, network governance, and urban leadership... If you want to keep up with cutting-edge debates in urban studies, the Davies and Imbroscio volume is essential′ - Todd Swanstrom, Saint Louis University ′Connects the best traditions of urban political theory with important new contributions on emerging themes. This completely revised second edition is an invaluable book for new students and established scholars. It is accessible, t...
Critical Urban Studies
Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field
Urban Politics
City politics is an ancient, enduring, and vibrant enterprise that can be traced back over two millennia. Its key concerns - reflected in the organization of this collection - include the nature of power, institutions, governance, community, scale, cross-national comparison, economic processes, as well as the urban citizenry itself and its uniquely urban problems and the public policy efforts to address such problems. The study of these concerns is inherently interdisciplinary, as local political processes are largely shaped by social forces, spatial dynamics, ethnic ethos, and economic factors.
Urban Politics
City politics is an ancient, enduring, and vibrant enterprise that can be traced back over two millennia. Its key concerns - reflected in the organization of this collection - include the nature of power, institutions, governance, community, scale, cross-national comparison, economic processes, as well as the urban citizenry itself and its uniquely urban problems and the public policy efforts to address such problems. The study of these concerns is inherently interdisciplinary, as local political processes are largely shaped by social forces, spatial dynamics, ethnic ethos, and economic factors.
Making a Place for Community
When pundits refer to the death of community, they are speaking of a number of social ills, which include, but are not limited to, the general increase in isolation and cynicism of our citizens, widespread concerns about declining political participation and membership in civic organizations, and periodic outbursts of small town violence. Making a Place for Community argues that this death of community is being caused by contemporary policies that, if not changed, will continue to foster the decline of community. Increased capital flow between nations is not at the root of the problem, however, increased capital flow within our nation is. Small towns shouldn't have to hope for a prison to open nearby and downtown centers shouldn't sit empty as suburban sparwl encroaches, but they do and it's a result of widely agreed upon public policies.
Urban Politics
City politics is an ancient, enduring, and vibrant enterprise that can be traced back over two millennia. Its key concerns - reflected in the organization of this collection - include the nature of power, institutions, governance, community, scale, cross-national comparison, economic processes, as well as the urban citizenry itself and its uniquely urban problems and the public policy efforts to address such problems. The study of these concerns is inherently interdisciplinary, as local political processes are largely shaped by social forces, spatial dynamics, ethnic ethos, and economic factors.
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