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200 00$aBig city politics in transition /$feditors, H.V. Savitch, John Clayton Thomas
210   $aNewbury Park, Calif. $cSAGE$d1991
210  4$aŠ1991
215   $a1 online resource (x, 262 pages) $cillustrations
225 1 $aUrban affairs annual reviews ;$vv. 38
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aCover; 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
327   $aChapter 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
330   $aThis 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,
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