Description: Further DetailsTitle: How Ideas Shape Urban Political DevelopmentCondition: NewISBN-10: 081225225XEAN: 9780812252255ISBN: 9780812252255Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/12/2020Description: A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political developmentIdeas, interests, and institutions are the "holy trinity" of the study of politics. Of the three, ideas are arguably the hardest with which to grapple and, despite a generally broad agreement concerning their fundamental importance, the most often neglected. Nowhere is this more evident than in the study of urban politics and urban political development.The essays in How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development argue that ideas have been the real drivers behind urban political development and offer as evidence national and international examples—some unique to specific cities, regions, and countries, and some of global impact. Within the United States, contributors examine the idea of "blight" and how it became a powerful metaphor in city planning; the identification of racially-defined spaces, especially black cities and city neighborhoods, as specific targets of neoliberal disciplinary practices; the paradox of members of Congress who were active supporters of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s but enjoyed the support of big-city political machines that were hardly liberal when it came to questions of race in their home districts; and the intersection of national education policy, local school politics, and the politics of immigration. Essays compare the ways in which national urban policies have taken different shapes in countries similar to the United States, namely, Canada and the United Kingdom. The volume also presents case studies of city-based political development in Chile, China, India, and Africa—areas of the world that have experienced a more recent form of urbanization that feature deep and intimate ties and similarities to urban political development in the Global North, but which have occurred on a broader scale.Contributors: Daniel Béland, Debjani Bhattacharyya, Robert Henry Cox, Richardson Dilworth, Jason Hackworth, Marcus Anthony Hunter, William Hurst, Sally Ford Lawton, Thomas Ogorzalek, Eleonora Pasotti, Joel Rast, Douglas S. Reed, Mara Sidney, Lester K. Spence, Vanessa Watson, Timothy P. R. Weaver, Amy Widestrom.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmContributor: Timothy P. R. Weaver (Edited by), Richardson Dilworth (Edited by)Genre: Business & FinanceBook Series: City in the Twenty-First CenturyAuthor: Richardson DilworthRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development
Title: How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development
ISBN-10: 081225225X
EAN: 9780812252255
ISBN: 9780812252255
Release Date: 06/12/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Richardson Dilworth (Edited by)
Genre: Business & Finance
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Public Policy / Social Policy, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Author: Timothy P. R. Weaver
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century Ser.
Format: Hardcover
