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City politics: the political economy of urban America
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Longman
Publication Date
c2010
Language
English
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From the Book - 7th ed.
The Politics of American Cities: An Introduction
The Influence of Privatism
The Expanding Powers of American City Governments
The Complex Task of Governance
The Choices Cities Make
A Guide for Reading This Book
Contested Terrain: Political Conflict in the Cities
The Private City and Local Democracy: The Political Legacy of the Nineteenth Century
National Development and Local Politics
The Urbanization of America
The Competition for Urban Growth
The Breakdown of Community: Industrialization
The Breakdown of Community: Transportation
The Breakdown of Community: Immigration
Municipal Government and the Expansion of City Services
The Fight for Control of Urban Government
The Political Isolation of the Cities
Party Machines and Political Entrepreneurs
Machines and Machine-Style Politics
The Origins of Machine Politics
James Pendergast: A Political Entrepreneur in Action
Did Machines Centralize Power and "Get the Job Done"?
Were Machines Vehicles of Upward Mobility?
Did Machines Help the Immigrants Assimilate?
The Social Reform Alternative
Machine Politics in Contemporary Cities
Democracy Versus Efficiency: The Reform Legacy
The Reform Impulse
The Reform Environment
The Campaigns Against Machine Rule
"Efficiency and Economy" in Municipal Affairs
The Business Model
Commission and Manager Governments
The Class Bias of Municipal Reform
Did Reform Kill the Machines?
The Reform Legacy: Representation and Local Democracy
National Policy and the Cities
National Politics and the Cities
The Changing Political Balance
The Political Isolation of the City
A New Urban Consciousness
The Urban Wing of the Democratic Party
The Depression and the Cities
The Cities in the Intergovernmental System
The Cities in National Politics
The National Effort to "Save the Cities" The "Save the Cities" Agenda
The Search for Urban Policy
The Struggle over Public Housing. Urban Renewal and Its Problems
The Renewal Steamroller
Redevelopment and Race
Public Housing: Urban Renewal's Stepchild
The Legacy
Social Programs and the Urban Crisis
A New Agend
The Making of the "Urban Crisis" The Origins of the Racial Crisis in American Cities
The Civil Rights Crusades
The Federal Role Under Two Democratic Presidents
The Conflicts Engendered by Federal Activism
The Backlash Against Federal Activism
Suburbs, Sunbelt, and the Eclipse of the Central Cities
Suburbanization and the Roots of the Urban Crisis
The U.S. Pattern of Urban Developmen
The Stages of Suburban Development
The Entrepreneurial Shaping of Suburbia
National Policies to Promote the Suburbs: Housing
National Policies to Promote the Suburbs: Transportation
Suburban Walls
The Politics of Metropolitan Fragmentation
Suburbs Against Cities
The Motive to Separate from the Cities
The Economic Effects of Suburban Autonomy
Zoning for Exclusion
The National Challenge to Exclusionary Zoning
New Jersey's Challenge to Exclusionary Zoning
The Suburbanization of African Americans
Yonkers: Segregated Housing in the Suburbs
The Costs of Suburbanization
The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities
The Concept of the Sunbelt
The Rise of the Sunbelt
The Changing Political Balance.
Why the Sunbelt Boomed
Regional Conflict: Sunbelt Versus Frostbelt
Politics in Sunbelt Cities: Growth Mania
Challenge to the Growth Regimes: The Growth Control Movement
Challenge to the Growth Regimes: The Neighborhood Movement
Conclusion: The Future of Sunbelt Urban Politics
The Struggle over Urban Policy: 1968-1992
Political Support for Urban Programs
The Republican Agenda: The New Federalism
The Impact of the New Federalism
The Housing and Community Development Act
Amendments to the Community Development Act
Eroding Support for Urban Programs
Urban Policy in the Reagan Administration
The Federal Retreat
Reducing the Capacity of State and Local Governments
Urban Enterprise Zones
The Waning Political Influence of Cities
The Return of the Private City
The Urban Fiscal Crisis
The Fiscal Crises of the 1990s
City Expenditures
City Revenues
Municipal Bonds.
The Ratings Game
A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Chicago
The Political Sources of Urban Fiscal Stress
Urban Economic Development: Who Wins and Who Loses?
The Urban Renaissance
The Rationale for the Politics of Growth
The Changing Economic Functions of Cities
The Corporate Center Strategy: The Baltimore Example
Why Cities Seek Tourists
Sports Politics: The Franchise Relocation Game
The Divided Cities
The New Urban Immigration, Concentrated Poverty, and the New Urban Leadership
Divided Cities and Political Leadership
The New Wave of Immigration.
Concentrated Poverty
A New Generation of Leadership
A Populist Alternative: Chicago's Harold Washington
Public Policy and the Urban Crisis
Is There a Remedy to the Politics of Secession?
Separation and Segregation
Three Myths
Policies That Unite Rather Than Divide.
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