Urban America Reconsidered : : Alternatives for Governance and Policy / / David L. Imbroscio.
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban America. Plagued by ineffectual and inegalitarian...
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Imbroscio, David L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Urban America Reconsidered : Alternatives for Governance and Policy / David L. Imbroscio. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2010 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cornell paperbacks Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Reconsidering Urban America -- Part I. Reconsidering Urban Governance: The Critique of Regime Theory -- 1. Reconceiving the State-Market Division -- 2. Reengaging Economics -- Part II. Reconsidering Urban Policy: The Critique of Liberal Expansionism -- 3. Reassessing the Shaming of the Inside Game -- 4. Rethinking the Dispersal Consensus -- Part III. Alternatives -- 5. The Local Public Balance Sheet -- 6. A Triad for Community Economic Stability -- Part IV. On Politics: The Desirable and the Feasible -- 7. The Folly of Liberal Politics -- 8. The Possibilities of an Alternative Politics -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban America. Plagued by ineffectual and inegalitarian governance, acute social problems such as extreme poverty, and social and economic injustice, many American cities suffer a fate similar to that of New Orleans before and after the hurricane. Gentrification and corporate redevelopment schemes merely distract from this disturbing reality. Compounding this tragedy is a failure in urban analysis and scholarship.Little has been offered in the way of solving urban America's problems, and much of what has been proposed or practiced remains profoundly misguided, in David Imbroscio's view. In Urban America Reconsidered, he offers a timely response. He urges a reconsideration of the two reigning orthodoxies in urban studies: regime theory, which provides an understanding of governance in cities, and liberal expansionism, which advocates regional policies linking cities to surrounding suburbs. Declaring both approaches to be insufficient-and sometimes harmful-Imbroscio illuminates another path for urban America: remaking city economies via an array of local economic alternative development strategies (or LEADS).Notable LEADS include efforts to build community-based development institutions, worker-owned firms, publicly controlled businesses, and webs of interdependent entrepreneurial enterprises. Equally notable is the innovative use of urban development tools to generate indigenous, stable, and balanced growth in local economies. Urban America Reconsidered makes a strong case for the LEADS approach for constructing progressive urban regimes and addressing America's deepest urban problems. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Community development, Urban United States. Liberalism United States. Municipal government United States. Urban policy United States. Political Science & Political History. U.S. History. Urban Studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development. bisacsh Liberalism, Beyond, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 9783110638721 print 9780801448522 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801458811 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801458811 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801458811/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Reconsidering Urban America -- Part I. Reconsidering Urban Governance: The Critique of Regime Theory -- 1. Reconceiving the State-Market Division -- 2. Reengaging Economics -- Part II. Reconsidering Urban Policy: The Critique of Liberal Expansionism -- 3. Reassessing the Shaming of the Inside Game -- 4. Rethinking the Dispersal Consensus -- Part III. Alternatives -- 5. The Local Public Balance Sheet -- 6. A Triad for Community Economic Stability -- Part IV. On Politics: The Desirable and the Feasible -- 7. The Folly of Liberal Politics -- 8. The Possibilities of an Alternative Politics -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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