The Dependent City Revisited

Author : Paul Kantor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000315851

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Here is a book that makes sense of the L.A. riots, homelessness, tax giveaways, and the other big urban issues that are back in the national spotlight. In this streamlined and updated new edition of his classic book, The Dependent City, Paul Kantor now focuses on economic development and social welfare policies to reveal the key dilemmas of American urban politics. Returning to a political economy theme, Kantor explores how city governments have struggled to escape and accommodate the reality of their economic dependency in the policies that they've pursued. Revisiting cities across the nation, Kantor finds not only that they have become more dependent but also that the character of this dependency has changed and deepened. Exploring local regimes in the Frostbelt and Sunbelt and in suburbia, he finds that they frequently act more like captives of big business rather than as representatives of citizens. Local attempts to promote social justice increasingly run up against a wall of economic dependency created by federal policies and business power. This book signals how American cities can find ways of overcoming this dependency by working together with states and the federal government to promote healthy, democratic urban politics. The Dependent City Revisited is an accessible, provocative supplement for a wide variety of courses in urban studies and political economy as well as stimulating reading for anyone who is interested in understanding America's urban mosaic.

Author : Paul Kantor,Stephen M. David
Publisher : Pearson Scott Foresman
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Federal-city relations
ISBN : UOM:39015013502425

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The Dependent City by Paul Kantor,Stephen M. David Pdf

Author : Paul Kantor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367291223

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The Dependent City Revisited by Paul Kantor Pdf

Here is a book that makes sense of the L.A. riots, homelessness, tax giveaways, and the other big urban issues that are back in the national spotlight. In this streamlined and updated new edition of his classic book, The Dependent City, Paul Kantor now focuses on economic development and social welfare policies to reveal the key dilemmas of American urban politics. Returning to a political economy theme, Kantor explores how city governments have struggled to escape and accommodate the reality of their economic dependency in the policies that they've pursued. Revisiting cities across the nation, Kantor finds not only that they have become more dependent but also that the character of this dependency has changed and deepened. Exploring local regimes in the Frostbelt and Sunbelt and in suburbia, he finds that they frequently act more like captives of big business rather than as representatives of citizens. Local attempts to promote social justice increasingly run up against a wall of economic dependency created by federal policies and business power. This book signals how American cities can find ways of overcoming this dependency by working together with states and the federal government to promote healthy, democratic urban politics. The Dependent City Revisited is an accessible, provocative supplement for a wide variety of courses in urban studies and political economy as well as stimulating reading for anyone who is interested in understanding America's urban mosaic.

Author : Dennis R. Judd,Dick W. Simpson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816665754

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The City, Revisited by Dennis R. Judd,Dick W. Simpson Pdf

Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century.

Author : David L. Imbroscio
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801457579

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Urban America Reconsidered by David L. Imbroscio Pdf

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 solving urban America's problems, and much of what has been proposed or practiced remains profoundly misguided, in David Imbroscio's view. In Urban America Reconsidered, he offers a timely response. He urges a reconsideration of the two reigning orthodoxies in urban studies: regime theory, which provides an understanding of governance in cities, and liberal expansionism, which advocates regional policies linking cities to surrounding suburbs. Declaring both approaches to be insufficient—and sometimes harmful—Imbroscio illuminates another path for urban America: remaking city economies via an array of local economic alternative development strategies (or LEADS). Notable LEADS include efforts to build community-based development institutions, worker-owned firms, publicly controlled businesses, and webs of interdependent entrepreneurial enterprises. Equally notable is the innovative use of urban development tools to generate indigenous, stable, and balanced growth in local economies. Urban America Reconsidered makes a strong case for the LEADS approach for constructing progressive urban regimes and addressing America's deepest urban problems.

Author : Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315498041

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The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Study of Four Cities by Oren M. Levin-Waldman Pdf

This book examines the movement for living wages at the local level and what it tells us about urban politics. Oren M. Levin-Waldman studies the role that living wage campaigns may have had in recent years in altering the political landscape in four cities where they have been adopted: Los Angeles, Detroit, Baltimore, and New Orleans. It is the author's belief that the living wage movements are a result of policy failure at the local level. They are the by-product of the failure to adequately address the changes that were occurring, mainly the changing urban economic base and growing income inequality. The author undertakes a scholarly analysis of the issue through the disciplinary lenses of political science while also employing some of the economists' tools.

Author : H. V. Savitch,Paul Kantor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691186504

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Cities in the International Marketplace by H. V. Savitch,Paul Kantor Pdf

Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and strategic choice when international competition increasingly limits the importance of place? Cities in the International Marketplace looks at the political responses of ten cities in North America and Western Europe as they grappled with the forces of global restructuring during the past thirty years. H. V. Savitch and Paul Kantor conclude that cities do have choices in city building and that they behave strategically in the international marketplace. Rather than treating cities through case studies, this book undertakes rigorous systematic comparison. In doing so it provides an innovative theory that explains how city governments bargain in the capital investment process to assert their influence. The authors examine the role of economic conditions and intergovernmental politics as well as local democratic institutions and cultural values. They also show why cities vary in their approaches to urban development. They portray how cities are constrained by the dynamics of the global economy but are not its prisoners. Further, they explain why some urban communities have more maneuverability than do others in the economic development game. Local governance, culture, and planning can combine with economic fortune and national urban policies to provide resources that expand or contract the scope for choice. This clearly written book analyzes the political economy of development in Detroit, Houston, and New York in the United States; Toronto in Canada; Paris and Marseilles in France; Milan and Naples in Italy; and Glasgow and Liverpool in Great Britain.

Author : Robert W. Kweit,Mary G. Kweit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135640293

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People & Politics in Urban America by Robert W. Kweit,Mary G. Kweit Pdf

This revised textbook for courses on urban politics challenges the notion that the field is dominated by political economy, showing that despite the undeniable importance of economic issues, citizens do play a significant part in urban politics.

Author : Robert W. Kweit,Mary G. Kweit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135640507

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People and Politics in Urban America, Second Edition by Robert W. Kweit,Mary G. Kweit Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : H. George Frederickson,Gary Alan Johnson,Curtis H. Wood
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 076561264X

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The Adapted City by H. George Frederickson,Gary Alan Johnson,Curtis H. Wood Pdf

This work considers how and why cities change their governing arrangements - and the implications for cities of the future. It provides case studies that show how actual cities have changed and adapted their structure to fit changing times and citizen demands.

Author : Richard Gendron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429975974

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The Leftmost City by Richard Gendron Pdf

Almost all US cities are controlled by real estate and development interests, but Santa Cruz, California, is a deviant case. An unusual coalition of socialist-feminists, environmentalists, social-welfare liberals, and neighborhood activists has stopped every growth project proposed by landowners and developers since 1969, and controlled the city council since 1981. Even after a 1989 earthquake forced the city to rebuild its entire downtown, the progressive elected officials prevailed over developers and landowners. Drawing on hundreds of primary documents, as well as original, previously unpublished interviews, The Leftmost City utilizes an extended case study of Santa Cruz to critique three major theories of urban power: Marxism, public-choice theory, and regime theory. Santa Cruz is presented within the context of other progressive attempts to shape city government, and the authors' findings support growth-coalition theory, which stresses the conflict between real estate interests and neighborhoods as the fundamental axis of urban politics. The authors conclude their analysis by applying insights gleaned from Santa Cruz to progressive movements nationwide, offering a template for progressive coalitions to effectively organize to achieve political power.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : 076563886X

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Adapted City by Anonim Pdf

This work considers how and why cities change their governing arrangements - and the implications for cities of the future. It provides case studies that show how actual cities have changed and adapted their structure to fit changing times and citizen demands.

Author : Annika Marlen Hinze,Dennis R. Judd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000600926

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City Politics by Annika Marlen Hinze,Dennis R. Judd Pdf

City Politics has received praise for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme – that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity. The book’s enduring appeal lies in its persuasive explanation, careful attention to historical detail, and accessible and elegant way of teaching the complexity and breadth of urban and regional politics which unfold at the intersection of spatial, cultural, economic, and policy dynamics. This 11th edition has been thoroughly updated while retaining the popular structure of past editions. Key updates include: • Individual chapters introducing students to pressing urban issues such as race and racism, gentrification, sustainability and the environment, urban crises, shrinking cities, immigration, and suburbanization, political polarization, and the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on cities • The most recent census data integrated throughout to provide current figures for analysis, discussion, and a more nuanced understanding of current trends. • The effects of the events of 2020 on cities – namely the Coronavirus pandemic; the murder of George Floyd and its aftermath, and the growth of the Black Lives Matter Movement; and the U.S. presidential election in November • The new and present challenges of the climate crisis, and its growing significance for cities. Taught on its own, or supplemented with the optional reader American Urban Politics in a Global Age for more advanced readers, City Politics remains the definitive text on urban politics – and how they have evolved in the United States over time. This is a comprehensive resource for a new generation of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as established researchers in the discipline. This book is accompanied by Support Material online: www.routledge.com/9781032006352

Author : Annika M. Hinze,Dennis R. Judd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351678810

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City Politics by Annika M. Hinze,Dennis R. Judd Pdf

Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme – that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity – City Politics remains a classic study of urban politics. Its enduring appeal lies in its persuasive explanation, careful attention to historical detail, and accessible and elegant way of teaching the complexity and breadth of urban and regional politics which unfold at the intersection of spatial, cultural, economic, and policy dynamics. Now in a thoroughly revised tenth edition, this comprehensive resource for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as well-established researchers in the discipline, retains the effective structure of past editions while offering important updates, including: All-new sections on immigration, the Black Lives Matter Movement, the downtown condo boom, and the impact of the sharing economy on urban neighborhoods (especially the rise of Airbnb). Individual chapters introducing students to pressing urban issues such as gentrification, sustainability, metropolitanization, urban crises, the creative class, shrinking cities, racial politics, and suburbanization. The most recent census data integrated throughout to provide current figures for analysis, discussion, and a more nuanced understanding of current trends. Taught on its own, or supplemented with the optional reader American Urban Politics in a Global Age for more advanced readers, City Politics remains the definitive text on urban politics – and how they have evolved in the US over time – for a new generation of students and researchers.

Author : Susan E. Clarke,Gary L. Gaile
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816628926

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The Work of Cities by Susan E. Clarke,Gary L. Gaile Pdf

In a pathbreaking study based on four case studies--Cleveland, Tacoma, Syracuse, and Jacksonville--authors Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gaile show how cities play a vital role in empowering citizens to adapt and serve as catalysts for a global economy. THE WORK OF CITIES is essential reading for anyone who cares about our metropolitan communities.