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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809528703321

Titolo

Big city politics in transition / / editors, H.V. Savitch, John Clayton Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, 1991

©1991

ISBN

1-4833-2578-4

1-4522-5311-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Urban affairs annual reviews ; ; v. 38

Altri autori (Persone)

SavitchH. V

ThomasJohn Clayton

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Municipal government - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Introduction: Big City Politics, Then and Now; Chapter 2 - Boston: The Incomplete Transformation; Chapter 3 - Philadelphia: The Slide toward Municipal Bankruptcy; Chapter 4 - Chicago: Power, Race, and Reform; Chapter 5 - Detroit: From Motor City to Service Hub; Chapter 6 - St. Louis: Racial Transition and Economic Development; Chapter 7 - Atlanta: Urban Coalitions in a Suburban Sea; Chapter 8 - Miami: Minority Empowerment and Regime Change; Chapter 9 - New Orleans: The Ambivalent City; Chapter 10 - Denver: Boosterism Versus Growth

Chapter 11 - Houston: Administration by Economic Elites; Chapter 12 - Los Angeles: Transformation of a Governing Coalition; Chapter 13 - San Francisco: Postmaterialist Populism in a Global City; Chapter 14 - Seattle: Grassroots Politics Shaping the Environment; Chapter 15 - Conclusion: End of the Millennium Big City Politics; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines how government and administration in America's largest cities have changed between 1960 and 1990. Each chapter traces demographic and economic changes over this vital, and at times turbulent, thirty year period explaining what those changes mean for politics, policies and the general quality of life. Analytic and



comparative chapters extract patterns and variations which emerge from the city profiles. Each profile addresses common issues in socio-economic, coalitional, institutional, process, values and policy changes in the following American cities: Boston, Philadelphia,