Using detailed case studies of ten cities in the United States, this book explores how politics works in the extended metropolis which includes and surrounds the urban core and is integrated in terms of economy, society and politics.
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Over half the world's population live in cities and this proportion is set to grow rapidly. This text offers a toolkit of methods by which our cities can be revived and revitalised.
Over half the world's population live in cities and this proportion is set to grow rapidly. This text offers a toolkit of methods by which our cities can be revived and revitalised.
Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban sprawl and reliance on the automobile, its prominence as a financial and industrial center, and the rise of Hollywood as the film capital of the world. This col…
"Harvey Molotch's "city as a growth machine" thesis is one of the most influential approaches to the analysis of urban politics and local economic development in the United States. However, the nature and context of urban politics have changed considerably since the growth machi…
Linchpin of the Soviet system and exemplar of its ideology, Moscow was nonetheless instrumental in the Soviet Union's demise. It was in this metropolis of nine million people that Boris Yeltsin, during two frustrating years as the city's party boss, began his move away from Comm…
Linchpin of the Soviet system and exemplar of its ideology, Moscow was nonetheless instrumental in the Soviet Union's demise. It was in this metropolis of nine million people that Boris Yeltsin, during two frustrating years as the city's party boss, began his move away from Comm…
