Reconstructing City Politics: Alternative Economic Development and Urban RegimesAlmost two decades of research in U.S. city politics has produced a compelling empirical account of the nature of urban governance revolving around the alliance of business interests and local public officials. In Reconstructing City Politics, author David L. Imbroscio urges that urban political economy must now move forward beyond the question of "what is?" to a consideration of "what might be?" He systematically poses the possibilities for reconstructing the nature of contemporary city politics, while integrating a wealth of innovative urban analysis. To bring about this reconstruction, Imbroscio explores three comprehensive alternative urban economic development strategies--entrepreneurial mercantilism, community based economic development, and municipal enterprise. He considers whether these three strategies are likely to be effective for bringing about urban economic vitality and whether it is feasible for cities to pursue these efforts in the current political economic context. By addressing these questions, Imbroscio is able to reach conclusions about the possibilities for a successful and sustainable reconstruction of U.S. city politics. This important volume will be vital for professionals and and researchers in urban planning, urban studies, urban and regional economics, as well as urban politics. |
Contents
Empirical and Normative Foundations 346 | 3 |
Reconstituting Urban Regimes | 23 |
The EntrepreneurialMercantilist Strategy | 49 |
Understanding Constraints on Feasibility | 74 |
The CommunityBased Strategy | 97 |
The MunicipalEnterprise Strategy | 139 |
Assessing Prospects for Effectiveness | 145 |
Understanding Constraints on Feasibility | 153 |
Toward a Reconstructed City Politics? | 161 |
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About the Author 210 | |
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agenda alliance Alperovitz alternative strategies analysis banks Bruyn capital CDCs central city politics Chapter community development community development bank community land trust Community Reinvestment Act community-based development community-based economic development community-based strategy companies context corporate corporate-center/mainstream dual dependencies Eisinger Elkin entrepreneurial mercantilism entrepreneurial-mercantilist strategy example external economic dependence factor factor of production Fordist Frug Giloth goal growth Gunn & Gunn import substitution increasing industries institutional internal resource dependency investment Jane Jacobs land-based business interests Latimer lessening ment mercantilist Moreover Morris municipal enterprise municipal-enterprise strategy neighborhoods nomic nomic development normative organizations Osborne & Gaebler Paul Pittsburgh political equality potential PPND production profit prospects for effectiveness public ownership pursue reconstitution Reinvestment Shorebank small businesses social Soifer Stephen Elkin Stone strategy's structural Swanstrom tion urban economic development urban political economy urban public officials urban regime form Wiewel
References to this book
Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital James DeFilippis No preview available - 2004 |
Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934-1997 Neil Kraus Limited preview - 2000 |