(Ebook) Urban Politics Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age 9th Edition by Myron A Levine ISBN 9780765646255 0765646250

(Ebook) Urban Politics Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age 9th Edition by Myron A Levine ISBN 9780765646255 0765646250

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ISBN 10: 0765646250
ISBN 13: 9780765646255
Author: Myron A Levine

(Ebook) Urban Politics Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age 9th Edition Table of contents:

1. The Urban Situation: Global City, Tourist City, Bankrupt City

• The Postindustrial Transformation of Pittsburgh

• Global City

• Tourist City

• Bankrupt City

• Power and the Study of Urban Politics

• Power: The Ability to Get Things Done

• Privatism: The Limited Power of Government

• The Subthemes of This Book

• Conclusion: The Urban Situation

• Key Terms

2. The Natural Factors that Shape the Growth and Decline of Cities and Suburbs

• Hidden Urban Policy: How the Government Shapes Metropolitan Development

• The Importance of Corporate and Private Power

• How Public Policies and Private-Sector Actions Contribute to Homelessness

• Conclusion: Hidden Urban Policies, Private Power, and the Contemporary Urban Situation

• Key Terms

3. Gentrification

• Who Transformed the Inner City: Urban Pioneers or Corporate Developers?

• Why Cities Promote Gentrification Despite Its Costs

• How Public and Private Institutions Promote Neighborhood Transformation

• Coping with Gentrification

4. World Cities and the Global Hierarchy: The Position of Cities in a Global Economy

• Globalization: The Permeability of City Borders

• Conclusion: Globalization, Power, and Democracy

• Key Terms

5. Moving Beyond the Old “Power Elite” versus “Pluralism” Debate

• “City Limits”: How Economic Competition Shapes Local Politics

• Regime Theory: Power as Social Production

• The Transformation of San Francisco: Political Power and Economic Development in the Postindustrial City

• Conclusion: Constrained Local Politics

• Key Terms

6. Municipal Incorporation, City Charters, and Local Fragmentation

• Dillon’s Rule

• Preemption

• Home Rule

• State Regulations Regarding Local Annexation and Secession

• Local Government Finance: State Limitations on Local Taxing and Borrowing

• The Voter Tax Revolt and Recent Trends in Financing Local Government

• “Academic Bankruptcy” Laws: The State Takeover of Schools in Crisis

7. The Formal Structure of City Government

• City Councils: No Miniature Reproductions of the U.S. Congress

• Women in Local Government

• The Difficult Task of Mayoral Leadership

• Minority Mayors and the Debate over Deracialization

• Conclusion: The Limited Position of Cities and the Prospects for Effective City Leadership

• Key Terms

8. The Machine, Reform, and Postreform City

• How Urban Machines Operated and How They Lasted for So Long

• Why Political Machines Declined

• Who Were the Reformers? The Ideology and Bias of the Reform Movement

• The Reforms and Their Impact

• A New Generation of Reform

• Conclusion: The Postreform City

• Key Terms

9. The Evolution of Citizen Participation

• Levels of Citizen Participation

• Treating the Public Not Only as Consumers But as Citizens and Partners

• Keys to Making Citizen Engagement Work

• The New Style of Community Organizations: Moving from Protest to Partnership

• Community Development Corporations

• E-Government and E-Democracy: From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 (and 3.0)

• Conclusion: Bottom-Up Participation, Deep Democracy, and the Facilitating Role That Government Can Play

• Key Terms

10. The Power of Municipal Service Agencies: The Bureaucratic City-State

• The Importance of Street-Level Bureaucrats

• Professionalism: An Imperfect Cure for the Urban Bureaucracy Problem

• Performance Measurement: Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity in Municipal Government

• Coproduction and Business Improvement Districts (BIDs)

• Service Contracting and Privatization

• The Private Management of Public Schools

• Vouchers, Tax Credits, and Charter Schools: A Variety of School Choice Programs

• Conclusion: Improving Public Services

• Key Terms

11. A Suburban Nation

• Suburban Diversity: The Changing Face of Suburbia

• Racial Stratification: Is It Race or Income that Determines Where People Live?

• Schools and Suburbia

• Suburban Land Use and Exclusion

• Suburban Autonomy and Metropolitan Fragmentation

• Can “Smart Growth” Curb Suburban Sprawl?

• “New Urbanism”: Can We Build Better Suburbs?

• Conclusion: Moving from Suburban Autonomy to a Working Regionalism

• Key Terms

12. Regional Governance in a Global Age

• Old-Style Restructuring: Annexation, Consolidation, and Metropolitan Government

• Is Metropolitan Government Really Desirable? Two Contrasting Schools of Thought

• Regional Cooperation, Old Style

• A New Regionalism for the Twenty-First Century: Improving Regional Governance, Not Creating Regional Government

• Building Regional Coalitions

• Conclusion: Governing Regions in a Global Age

• Key Terms

13. The Intergovernmental City: State and National Policy

• The Constitutional Basis for Federal Urban Programs: Cooperative Federalism

• Grants-in-Aid: The Fuel of Cooperative Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations

• Types of Grants

• The Grant System: Its Accomplishments and Problems

• Why the United States Has No National Urban Policy

• Urban Policy for an Anti-Urban Age: Bill Clinton’s “Stealth” Urban Approach

• Barack Obama’s Hybrid Urban Approach

• The Continuing Importance of the States

• Conclusion: Finding Ways to Create Partnerships in an Anti-Urban Policy Age

• Key Terms

14. The Future of Urban America

• The Continuing Emphasis on Economic Development

• The Future of Minority Empowerment

• Urban Policy in a Suburban Age: The End of Urban Policy?

• Toward Sustainable Cities

• The Urban Future: U.S. Cities in a Global Age

• Key Terms

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