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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794651703321

Titolo

Private Metropolis : The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance / / Alba Alexander, Dennis R. Judd, and Evan McKenzie, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2021

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press

ISBN

1-4529-6533-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages)

Collana

Globalization and community ; ; volume 32

Disciplina

320.8/50973

Soggetti

Municipal services - United States - Finance

Public-private sector cooperation - United States

Metropolitan government - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : shadow governments and the remaking of the American local state / Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, and Alba Alexander -- City-building capacity and special-purpose authorities : institutions, interests, and the local state / James M. Smith -- Phantom governments : multiple-function special districts as substitutes for municipalities / Evan McKenzie -- Governing Detroit : the withering of the municipal state / Peter Eisinger -- Transportation empires in the New York and Los Angeles regions : from the old to the new politics of governance and development / Steven P. Erie, Scott MacKenzie, and Jameson W. Doig -- Whetting their appetites : privatization schemes and the case of water / Ellen Dannin and Douglas Cantor -- The role of the state in public-private initiatives : lessons from Great Britain / Alba Alexander -- Financing urban infrastructure and services under the new normal : a look at special assessments / Shu Wang and Rebecca Hendrick -- Devolution and debt : financing public facilities in an age of austerity / Rachel Weber, Amanda Kass, and Sara Hinkley -- Building the public city, privately / David Perry and Mary Donoghue -- Conclusion : the Fate of the public realm / Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, and Alba Alexander.



Sommario/riassunto

"Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today's metropolitan regions"--