Politics of Urban America, The: A Reader

by Judd, Dennis R.; Kantor, Paul P.

• ISBN13: 9780321087287
• ISBN10: 0321087283
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

In this reader, two leading scholars have brought together a collection that represent some of the most important trends in urban scholarship today. The readings fit together in a political economy framework so that, considered as a whole, they illustrate how public power and private resources interact in the governance of cities. Users appreciate the reader's cutting edge scholarship, placement of U.S. cities in a world context, and strong introductory essays by the editors. Also available in a new edition: Judd & Swanstrom's City Politics 3/e. The reader is the perfect complement for this main text. (To order The Politics of Urban America 3/e packaged with City Politics 3/e, give ISBN 0-201-77397-X to your bookstore).

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introductory Essay: The Evolution of Urban Politics in America	1	(11)
The Political Economy of Cities	12	(65)
Editors' Essay The Nature of Urban Governance	12	(2)
The Interests of the Limited City	14	(12)
Paul E. Peterson
Urban Regimes: A Research Perspective	26	(16)
Clarence N. Stone
Semisovereign Cities: The Politics of Urban Development	42	(17)
Todd Swanstrom
Culture Wars and City Politics	59	(18)
Elaine B. Sharp
Part One The Evolution of American Urban Politics
The Mercantile Cities	77	(20)
Editors' Essay The Culture of Privatism	77	(1)
The Evnironment of Private Opportunity	78	(9)
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
The Urban Frontier	87	(10)
Richard C. Wade
Machine Politics	97	(30)
Editors' Essay The Politics of Clientelism	97	(1)
``To Hold Your District: Study Human Nature and Act Accordin''	98	(3)
William L. Riordan
The Latent Functions of the Machine	101	(9)
Robert K. Merton
Big-City Rainbow Politics: Machines Revividus?	110	(17)
Steven P. Erie
Reform Politics	127	(45)
Editors' Essay The Contest for Political Control	127	(1)
City Affairs Are Not Political	128	(3)
Andrew D. White
The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era	131	(20)
Samuel P. Hays
Winning the West to Municipal Reform	151	(21)
Amy Bridges
Part Two The Politics of the Contemporary American City
The Suburbs	172	(30)
Editors' Essay Government Against Government	172	(1)
The Gender Regimes of American Cities	173	(13)
Lynn M. Appleton
Suburban Autonomy	186	(12)
Michael N. Danielson
Edge City	198	(4)
Joel Garreau
The Central Cities	202	(44)
Editors' Essay Keeping the Peace: Governance	202	(1)
Citizen Participation in Urban Politics: Rise and Routinization	203	(12)
Christopher Howard
Michael Lipsky
Dale Rogers Marshall
The Limits of Urban Regime Theory: New York City Under Koch, Dinkins, and Giuliani	215	(17)
William Sites
The Political Transformation of Sunbelt Cities	232	(14)
Carl Abbott
Part Three Problems and Policy Issues of the New Millenium
Entrepreneurial Cities	246	(50)
Editors' Essay The Politics of Growth	246	(2)
When Disney Comes to Town	248	(4)
Richard Foglesong
The Politics of Bread and Circuses	252	(14)
Peter Eisinger
The Myth of Community Development	266	(10)
Nicholas Lemann
Can Politicians Bargain with Business? A Theoretical and Comparative Perspective on Urban Development	276	(20)
Paul Kantor
H. V. Savitch
The New Inequalities	296	(60)
Editors' Essay The Divided Metropolis	296	(1)
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders	297	(10)
Fortress Los Angeles, The Militarization of Urban Space	307	(19)
Mike Davis
Enclosure, Community, and Public Life	326	(14)
Dennis R. Judd
Building a Foundation for Multiracial Cooperation	340	(16)
William Julius Wilson
National Policy and Local Governments	356	(22)
Editors' Essay Cities in a Federal System	356	(1)
Who Should Do What? Divided Responsibility in the Federal System	357	(8)
Paul E. Peterson
City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution	365	(13)
Peter Eisinger
The New Regional Politics	378	(1)
Editors' Essay Regional Politics in the Twenty-First Century	378	(2)
The Regional Economic Commons	380	(13)
William R. Barnes
Larry C. Ledebur
Conflict or Consensus? Forty Years of Minnesota Metropolitan Politics	393	(7)
Myron Orfield
Fat City: Understanding American Urban Form from a Transatlantic Perspective	400	(4)
Pietro S. Nivola
Is Regional Government the Answer?	404
Fred Siegel