Myron A. Levine, Heywood T. Sanders

Urban Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Urban Politics brings together the classic and contemporary literature on urban politics and history with today's pressing urban issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040270776
• Artikelnr.: 73440064

Autorenporträt

Myron A. Levine is Professor Emeritus in the Urban Affairs, Political Science, and Public Administration programs in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at Wright State University, USA. His writings have appeared in Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and various other urban studies and political science journals. He is the editor of Taking Sides: Urban Affairs and of a number of volumes in the Annual Editions: Urban Society series. He has received Fulbright Foundation fellowships to study and teach in the Netherlands, Germany, Latvia, and the Slovak Republic, as well as an NEH award to study in France.

Heywood T. Sanders is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His previous works include Convention Center Follies (2015), Urban Texas: Politics and Development (co-edited with Char Miller, 2000), and The Politics of Urban Development (co-edited with Clarence N. Stone, 1987). He has also published articles in Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and Economic Development Quarterly. The Brookings Institution published his Space Available: The Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Urban Situation: Global City, Tourist City, City Left Behind, Growing
Tech City 2 The Evolution of Cities and Suburbs 3 A Suburban Nation 4
Recent Trends: Gentrification, Concentrated Poverty, and Globalization 5
Who Has the Power? Decision Making and Economic Development in Cities and
Suburbs 6 Formal Powers, the Structure of Local Government, and Leadership
7 The Rules of Local Politics and Elections: The Reform and Post-Reform
City 8 Citizen Participation 9 Improving Urban Services 10 Regional
Cooperation and Governance in a Global Age 11 The Intergovernmental City:
National and State Urban Policy 12 The Future of Urban America