Neoliberal Cities : : The Remaking of Postwar Urban America / / ed. by Thomas J. Sugrue, Andrew J. Diamond.

• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Thomas,; Diamond, Andrew J.,; French-Marcelin, Megan,; McQuarrie, Michael,; Murch, Donna,; Pattillo, Mary,; Phillips-Fein, Kim,; Sugrue, Thomas J.,; Tissot, Sylvie,
• HerausgeberIn: Diamond, Andrew J.,; Sugrue, Thomas J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problemsThe American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable housing, criminal justice, and education. Through richly told case studies from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York, Neoliberal Cities provides the necessary context to understand the always intensifying racial and economic inequality in and around the city center. In this original collection of essays, urban historians and sociologists trace the role that public policies have played in reshaping cities, with particular attention to labor, the privatization of public services, the collapse of welfare, the rise of gentrification, the expansion of the carceral state, and the politics of community control. In so doing, Neoliberal Cities offers a bottom-up approach to social scientific, theoretical, and historical accounts of urban America, exploring the ways that activists and grassroots organizations, as well as ordinary citizens, came to terms with new market-oriented public policies promoted by multinational corporations, financial institutions, and political parties. Neoliberal Cities offers new scaffolding for urban and metropolitan change, with attention to the interaction between policymaking, city planning, social movements, and the market.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Historicizing the Neoliberal Metropolis -- 1 Race, Poverty, and Neighborhood Planning in Chicago from the New Deal to Neoliberalism -- 2 “New Life, New Vigor, and New Values” Privatization, Service Work, and the Rise of Neoliberal Urbanism in Postwar Southern California -- 3 The Politics of Austerity: The Moral Economy in 1970s New York -- 4 Doing Business New Orleans Style: Racial Progressivism and the Politics of Uneven Development -- 5 The Color of War: Race, Neoliberalism, and Punishment in Late Twentieth- Century Los Angeles -- 6 Is Gentrification the Result of Neoliberalism? The Cultural Making of the Real Estate Market in Boston’s South End, 1965– 2005 -- 7 Race, Participation, and Institutional Transformation in the Neoliberal City: Black Politics in Cleveland, 1965– 2010 -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index