City power : Urban governance in a global age / Richard Schragger.

By:

Schragger, Richard C, 1970- [author.]

Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: xi, 322 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780190246662 (hardback)

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: City powerDDC classification:

307.76 SCH 23

LOC classification:

HT321 .S36 2016

Other classification:

POL002000 | POL023000 | POL040040

Contents:

Table of contents Introduction: Cities, Capital, and Constitutions 1. What is the City? Building Blocks of Economic Life Byproducts and Products The City as a Process Conclusion: Mystery and Modesty 2. Decentralization and Development Competition and Growth The Historic Vulnerability of City Status What Does Decentralization Do? Conclusion: Freeing Cities from a False Constraint 3. Vertical Federalism: Making Weak Cities Legal Autonomy and Political Influence Federalism and City Power Technocracy versus Democracy Conclusion: "Things Could be Worse. I Could be a Mayor." 4. Horizontal Federalism: Encouraging Footloose Capital Inter-Municipal Border Controls Subsidizing Mobile Capital Conclusion: Economic [Dis]Integration 5. The City Redistributes I: Policy The Limits of City Limits Mandating a Living Wage Land-Use Unionism Regulating Through Contract Conclusion: Exercising Urban Power 6. The City Redistributes II: Politics Municipal Politics Matters Immobile Capital Translocal Networks Economic Localism Conclusion: The Re-emergence of the Regulatory City 7. Urban Resurgence Urban Policy and Urban Resurgence Assessing Economic Development Strategies Uncertainty and Economic Development Conclusion: Back to Basics 8. Urban Crisis Debt and Discipline Of Bailouts and Bankruptcy The Politics of Municipal Failure Conclusion: Marginal Cities Conclusion: Can Cities Govern? Notes Acknowledgements Index

Summary: "Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Schragger challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that cities can and should pursue aims other than making themselves attractive to global capital. Using the municipal living wage movement as an example, Schragger explains why cities are well-positioned to address issues like income equality and how our institutions can be designed to allow them to do so"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes index.

Table of contents

Introduction: Cities, Capital, and Constitutions

1. What is the City?
Building Blocks of Economic Life
Byproducts and Products
The City as a Process
Conclusion: Mystery and Modesty

2. Decentralization and Development
Competition and Growth
The Historic Vulnerability of City Status
What Does Decentralization Do?
Conclusion: Freeing Cities from a False Constraint

3. Vertical Federalism: Making Weak Cities
Legal Autonomy and Political Influence
Federalism and City Power
Technocracy versus Democracy
Conclusion: "Things Could be Worse. I Could be a Mayor."

4. Horizontal Federalism: Encouraging Footloose Capital
Inter-Municipal Border Controls
Subsidizing Mobile Capital
Conclusion: Economic [Dis]Integration

5. The City Redistributes I: Policy
The Limits of City Limits
Mandating a Living Wage
Land-Use Unionism
Regulating Through Contract
Conclusion: Exercising Urban Power

6. The City Redistributes II: Politics
Municipal Politics Matters
Immobile Capital
Translocal Networks
Economic Localism
Conclusion: The Re-emergence of the Regulatory City

7. Urban Resurgence
Urban Policy and Urban Resurgence
Assessing Economic Development Strategies
Uncertainty and Economic Development
Conclusion: Back to Basics

8. Urban Crisis
Debt and Discipline
Of Bailouts and Bankruptcy
The Politics of Municipal Failure
Conclusion: Marginal Cities

Conclusion: Can Cities Govern?

Notes
Acknowledgements
Index

"Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Schragger challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that cities can and should pursue aims other than making themselves attractive to global capital. Using the municipal living wage movement as an example, Schragger explains why cities are well-positioned to address issues like income equality and how our institutions can be designed to allow them to do so"-- Provided by publisher.

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