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The Politics of Urban Development

The Politics of Urban Development

Edited by Clarence N. Stone and Heywood T. Sanders

Series: Studies in Government and Public Policy

Sales Date: September 8, 1987

320 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

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9780700603336
Published: September 1987

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In the past twenty years the study of urban politics has shifted from a predominant concern with political culture and ethos to a preoccupation with political economy, particularly that of urban development. Urban scholars have come to recognize that cities are shaped by forces beyond their boundaries. From that focus have emerged the views that cities are clearly engaged in economic competition; that market processes are shaped by national policy decisions, sometimes intentionally and sometimes inadvertently; and that the costs and benefits of economic growth are unevenly distributed. But what else needs to be said about the policies and politics of urban development?

To supplement prevailing theories, The Politics of Urban Development argues that the role of local actors in making development decisions merits closer study. Whatever the structural constraints, politics still matters. Collectively the essays provide ample evidence that local government officials and other community actors do not simply follow the imperatives that derive from the national political economy; they are able to assert a significant degree of influence over the shared destiny of an urban population. The impact of the collection is to heighten awareness of local political practices and of how and why they make a difference.

Clarence N. Stone is professor of government a the University of Maryland. His books include Changing Urban Education and Regime Politics.

Heywood T. Sanders, professor in the Department of Urban Studies at Trinity University, has written on the politics of urban infrastructure.

"Well-conceived, informative, and challenging."—Journal of Urban Affairs
"The value of the book is that it illuminates the forces that make social change succeed or fail in cities these days."—Journal of the American Planning Association
"A stunning collection of articles by leading urban scholars. It is brilliantly conceived and executed, reading more like a single-author book than a group of essays."—Dennis Judd, author of The Politics of American Cities
"These essays present a coherent and compelling argument—one that should help restore politics to the study of the urban development process;"—Martin Shefter, author of Political Crisis/Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Study of the Politics of Urban Development, Clarence N. Stone

Part 1: The Character of Urban Regimes

2. State and Market in City Politics: Or, The “Real” Dallas, Stephen L. Elkin

3. Fiscal Crises and Regime Change: A Contextual Approach, Robert F. Pecorella

4. Coalition-Building by a Regional Agency: Austin Tobin and the Port of New York Authority, James W. Doig

5. More Autonomous Policy Orientations: An Analytic Framework, Susan E. Clarke

6. Grass-roots Mobilization in the Thirteenth Arrondissement of Paris: A Cross-National View, Sophie N. Body-Gendrot

7. The Arts Coalition in Strategies of Urban Development, J. Allen Whitt

Part 2: Conflict and Conflict Management

8. Reexamining a Classic Case of Development Politics: New Haven, Connecticut, Clarence N. Stone and Heywood T. Sanders

9. The Politics of Development in Middle-sized Cities: Getting from New Haven to Kalamazoo, Heywood T. Sanders

10. A Critique of Neo-Progressivism in Theorizing about Local Development Policy: A Case from Atlanta, Adolph Reed, Jr.

11. New Orleans: Mayoral Politics and Economic-Development Policies in the Postwar Years, 1945-1986, Robert K. Whelan

12. Structural Change and Innovation: Elites and Albuquerque Politics in the 1980s, Peter A. Lupsha

13. Baltimore: The Self-Evaluating City?, Robert P. Stoker

Conclusion

14. Summing Up: Urban Regimes, Development Policy, and Political Arrangements, Clarence N. Stone

15. Possible Directions for Future Inquiry, Clarence N. Stone

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