Description - Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age by Myron A. Levine
- Blends the most insightful classic and current political science and related literature with current issues in urban affairs.
- Built around a theme of ‘power,’ demonstrating that the study of urban politics requires an analysist to look beyond the formal institutions and procedures of local government.
- Engages students with pragmatic case studies and boxed material that use classic and current urban films and TV shows to illustrate particular aspects of urban politics.
- Includes a substantial concluding discussion of local policies for environmental sustainability and green cities
- Each chapter has been completely rewritten to focus on new developments, including the importance of the intergovernmental city; the role of local governments as active policy actors, as cities become vital policy makers, even in areas outside traditional municipal policy concerns; and the prospects for urban policy and change in and beyond the Trump administration, including the ways in which urban politics is affected but not determined by Washington.
- Develops important subthemes: the impact of globalization; the dominance of economic development over competing local policy concerns; the continuing importance of race in the urban arena; local government activism versus the ‘limits’ imposed on local action by the American constitutional system and economic competition; and the impact of national and state government action on cities.
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