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City politics : the political economy of urban America
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[This text] has been revised to focus explicitly on the three distinct periods in the nation's urban development - the industrial era, the era of urban crisis, and the global era - and the economic...
[This text] has been revised to focus explicitly on the three distinct periods in the nation's urban development - the industrial era, the era of urban crisis, and the global era - and the economic priorities in each of these phrases.-Back cover.
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- Creator
- Dennis R. Judd, Todd Swanstrom
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Fifth edition
- New York : Pearson/Longman, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- x, 431 pages, 20 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0321328167, 9780321328168
- OCLC
- ocm57434274
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The evolution of city politics in America: an introduction -- The struggle for primacy and power -- Growth and governance: the political legacy of America's urban past -- Party machines and the immigrants -- The reform crusades -- National politics and the cities -- The New Deal coalition and the cities -- National policy and the divided metropolis -- The rise and fall of national urban policy -- The rise of the sunbelt -- The fractured metropolis -- Cities in crisis -- Enclave politics: the suburbs -- Governing the sprawled metropolis -- City finances and the dynamics of growth -- Reviving the cities -- The challenge of governance -- The urban prospect in the global era