LEADER 04662nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910460052403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5881-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801458811 035 $a(CKB)2670000000078976 035 $a(OCoLC)726824272 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457633 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000488180 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11308245 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488180 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10450388 035 $a(PQKB)11190754 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138012 035 $a(OCoLC)966913601 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51799 035 $a(DE-B1597)478596 035 $a(OCoLC)979684264 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801458811 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138012 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457633 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000078976 100 $a20091001d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUrban America reconsidered$b[electronic resource] $ealternatives for governance and policy /$fDavid Imbroscio 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 225 1 $aCornell paperbacks 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4852-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface /$rLiberalism, Beyond --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Reconsidering Urban America --$tPart I. Reconsidering Urban Governance: The Critique of Regime Theory --$t1. Reconceiving the State-Market Division --$t2. Reengaging Economics --$tPart II. Reconsidering Urban Policy: The Critique of Liberal Expansionism --$t3. Reassessing the Shaming of the Inside Game --$t4. Rethinking the Dispersal Consensus --$tPart III. Alternatives --$t5. The Local Public Balance Sheet --$t6. A Triad for Community Economic Stability --$tPart IV. On Politics: The Desirable and the Feasible --$t7. The Folly of Liberal Politics --$t8. The Possibilities of an Alternative Politics --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban America. Plagued by ineffectual and inegalitarian governance, acute social problems such as extreme poverty, and social and economic injustice, many American cities suffer a fate similar to that of New Orleans before and after the hurricane. Gentrification and corporate redevelopment schemes merely distract from this disturbing reality. Compounding this tragedy is a failure in urban analysis and scholarship. Little has been offered in the way of solving urban America's problems, and much of what has been proposed or practiced remains profoundly misguided, in David Imbroscio's view. In Urban America Reconsidered, he offers a timely response. He urges a reconsideration of the two reigning orthodoxies in urban studies: regime theory, which provides an understanding of governance in cities, and liberal expansionism, which advocates regional policies linking cities to surrounding suburbs. Declaring both approaches to be insufficient-and sometimes harmful-Imbroscio illuminates another path for urban America: remaking city economies via an array of local economic alternative development strategies (or LEADS).Notable LEADS include efforts to build community-based development institutions, worker-owned firms, publicly controlled businesses, and webs of interdependent entrepreneurial enterprises. Equally notable is the innovative use of urban development tools to generate indigenous, stable, and balanced growth in local economies. Urban America Reconsidered makes a strong case for the LEADS approach for constructing progressive urban regimes and addressing America's deepest urban problems. 410 0$aCornell paperbacks. 606 $aUrban policy$zUnited States 606 $aMunicipal government$zUnited States 606 $aCommunity development, Urban$zUnited States 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aUrban policy 615 0$aMunicipal government 615 0$aCommunity development, Urban 615 0$aLiberalism 676 $a320.8/50973 700 $aImbroscio$b David L$0931846 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460052403321 996 $aUrban America reconsidered$92452233 997 $aUNINA