03030nam 2200505 a 450 991080952870332120240402040218.01-4833-2578-41-4522-5311-0(CKB)2550000001194147(EBL)1598372(MiAaPQ)EBC1598372(OCoLC)1007858098(StDuBDS)EDZ0000159216(EXLCZ)99255000000119414720130912h19911991 fy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBig city politics in transition /editors, H.V. Savitch, John Clayton Thomas1st ed.Newbury Park, Calif. SAGE1991©19911 online resource (x, 262 pages) illustrationsUrban affairs annual reviews ;v. 381-322-42210-9 0-8039-4031-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 GrowthChapter 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 ContributorsThis 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,Urban affairs annual reviews ;38.Municipal governmentUnited StatesCase studiesMunicipal government307.76Savitch H. V900108Thomas John Clayton1721536StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910809528703321Big city politics in transition4121225UNINA