Urban Politics

• VOLUME 1: TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONSThe Polis - Humphrey KittoThe Early Polis as City and State - Ian MorrisExtract from Politics - AristotleDemocratic Politics in Republican Rome - John NorthExtracts from The City of God against the Pagans - AugustineSubsidiarity, Federalism and the Best Constitution: Thomas Aquinas on city, province and empire - Nicholas AroneyThe Emergence of an Urban Ideology at Florence, c. 1250-1450 - George HolmesThe Great Towns - Frederick EngelsThe Paris Commune - Karl MarxThe Arcades Project - Walter BenjaminExtracts from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - William RiordanLatent Functions of the Machine - Robert MertonThe Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era - Samuel HaysUrban Renewal and Social Conflict - Manuel CastellsFrom the City to Urban Society - Henri LefebvreIntroduction to Un-Heavenly City: The nature and future of our urban crisis - Edward BanfieldThe Uses of Sidewalks: Safety - Jane JacobsVOLUME 2: POWER AND POLITICAL ECONOMYExtracts from Who Governs - Robert DahlThe Local Community as Ecology of Games - Norton LongThe Structure of Power in Regional City - Floyd HunterTwo Faces of Power - Peter Bachrach and Morten BaratzThe City as a Growth Machine - Harvey MolotchRe-defining Urban Politics for the 21st Century - Allan CochraneFrom Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The transformation in urban governance in late capitalism - David HarveyCity Trenches: Urban politics and the patterning of class in the United States - Ira KatznelsonSystemic Power in Community Decision Making: Restatement of stratification theory - Clarence StoneThe Interests of the Limited City - Paul PetersonThe Urban Basis of Political Alignment: Social class, domestic property ownership, and state intervention in consumption processes - Patrick DunleavySemi-Sovereign Cities: The politics of urban development - Todd SwanstromThe World City Hypothesis - John FriedmannCities in Today′s Global Age - Saskia SassenNeoliberal Urbanism: Models, moments, mutations - Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil BrennerSix Discourses on the Postmetropolis - Edward W. SojaVOLUME 3: INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCECity, State and Market - Stephen ElkinToward a Theory of Urban Development - H. V. Savitch and Paul KantorUrban Regimes and the Capacity to Govern - Clarence StoneUrban Regimes and Growth Machines: Towards a cross-national research agenda - Alan HardingGovernance as Theory: Five propositions - Gerry StokerRescuing Aunt Sally: Taking institutional theory seriously in urban politics - Vivien LowndesToward a Theory of Street-Level Bureaucracy - Michael LipskyThe Urban Bureaucracy Anne - Mette KjaerLocal Governance, the Crises of Fordism and the Changing Geographies of Regulation - Mark Goodwin and Joe PainterUnderstanding Recent Trends in Central-Local Relations: Centralisation in Great Britain and decentralisation in the United States - Harold WolmanUnderstanding Urban Governance: The contribution of rational choice - Keith Dowding et alLife-style Values and Political Decentralization in Metropolitan Areas - Olivier WilliamsRegionalisms: New and old - Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf and Todd SwanstromMetropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe - Neil BrennerDeepening Democracy - Archon Fung and Erik Olin WrightThe Democratic Anchorage of Governance Networks - Eva Sorensen and Jacob TorfingThe Limits of Partnership: An exit-action strategy for local democratic inclusion - Jonathan DaviesVOLUME 4: PUBLICS AND POLICIESThe Rise of the Creative Class - Richard FloridaPlanet of Slums - Mike DavisClass and Protest in Africa: New waves - David Seddon and Leo ZeiligThe Black Urban Regime: Structural origins and constraints - A. Reed Jr.Universalism and Deconcentration: Why race still matters in poverty and economic development - J. Phillip Thompson, IIIThe Prospects for Political Equality: Is protest enough? - R.P. Browning, D.R. Marshall and D.H. TabbGender and Sexuality - Judith GarberNeither Romance nor Regulation: Re-evaluating community - James DeFillipis, Robert Fisher and Eric ShraggeUrban Social Movements in an Era of Globalization - Margit MayerPivatism and the Limits of Local Economic Development Policy - Timothy Barnekov and Daniel RichThe Politics of Local Economic Development - Harold Wolman with David SpitzleyConcentrated Poverty and Metropolitan Equity Strategies - Scott BollensExcavating the Logic of British Urban Policy: Neoliberalism as the "crisis of crisis management - Martin Jones and Kevin WardLocal Policy Responses to Globalization: Place-based ownership models of economic enterprise - David Imbroscio, Thad Williamson and Gar AlperowitzSustainability and Infrastructure Planning in South Africa: A Cape Town case study - Mark SwillingReinventing Urban Citizenship - Rainer BauböckCity Life and Difference - Marion Young

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