Place Matters: Metropolitics For The Twenty-First Century

by Dreier, Peter; Mollenkopf, John; Swanstrom, Todd

• ISBN13: 9780700613649
• ISBN10: 0700613641
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-28
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Author Biography

Peter Dreier, Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College, is coauthor of Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together and The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City John Mollenkopf is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and sociology and director of the Center for Urban Research at CUNY Graduate Center Todd Swanstrom is professor of public policy at Saint Louis University. He is the author of The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism, the coauthor of City Politics, and coeditor of Beyond the City Limits

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Place Still Matters	1	(36)
The Facts of Economic Segregation and Sprawl	37	(27)
The Costs of Economic Segregation and Sprawl	64	(39)
The Roads Not Taken: How Government Policies Promote Economic Segregation and Suburban Sprawl	103	(49)
Urban Politics and City Limits: What Cities Can and Cannot Do to Address Poverty	152	(64)
Regionalisms Old and New	216	(31)
Metropolicies for the Twenty-first Century	247	(29)
Crossing the City Line: A Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century	276	(35)
Notes	311	(98)
Index	409