| Autore |
Schragger Richard C. <1970->
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (337 pages)
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| Disciplina |
307.76
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| Soggetto topico |
Municipal government - Economic aspects
Municipal government - Social aspects
Urban policy
Income distribution - Government policy
Living wage movement
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
0-19-024668-5
0-19-024667-7
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| Classificazione |
POL002000POL023000POL040040
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Cities, Capital, and Constitutions -- 1. What is the City? -- Building Blocks of Economic Life -- Byproducts and Products -- The City as a Process -- Conclusion: Mystery and Modesty -- 2. Decentralization and Development -- Competition and Growth -- The Historic Vulnerability of City Status -- What Does Decentralization Do? -- Conclusion: Freeing Cities from a False Constraint -- 3. Vertical Federalism: Making Weak Cities -- Legal Autonomy and Political Influence -- Federalism and City Power -- Technocracy versus Democracy -- Conclusion: "Things Could be Worse. I Could be a Mayor." -- 4. Horizontal Federalism: Encouraging Footloose Capital -- Inter-Municipal Border Controls -- Subsidizing Mobile Capital -- Conclusion: Economic [Dis]Integration -- 5. The City Redistributes I: Policy -- The Limits of City Limits -- Mandating a Living Wage -- Land-Use Unionism -- Regulating Through Contract -- Conclusion: Exercising Urban Power -- 6. The City Redistributes II: Politics -- Municipal Politics Matters -- Immobile Capital -- Translocal Networks -- Economic Localism -- Conclusion: The Re-emergence of the Regulatory City -- 7. Urban Resurgence -- Urban Policy and Urban Resurgence -- Assessing Economic Development Strategies -- Uncertainty and Economic Development -- Conclusion: Back to Basics -- 8. Urban Crisis -- Debt and Discipline -- Of Bailouts and Bankruptcy -- The Politics of Municipal Failure -- Conclusion: Marginal Cities -- Conclusion: Can Cities Govern? -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910149032303321 |
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City power : urban governance in a global age / / Richard Schragger
