Remaking New York : primitive globalization and the politics of urban community / William Sites.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sites, William.

Series:

Globalization and community ; v. 12.

Globalization and community ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Book Committee.

City planning--New York (State)--New York.

City planning.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Economic policy.

Municipal government.

Political participation.

Community organization.

Community development.

New York (State)--New York.

Community development--New York (State)--New York.

Community organization--New York (State)--New York.

Political participation--New York (State)--New York.

Municipal government--New York (State)--New York.

Globalization.

New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government.

New York (N.Y.).

Politics and government.

New York (N.Y.)--Economic policy.

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions.

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.).

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--Economic conditions.

New York (State)--New York--Lower East Side.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]

Summary:

Inequality increases, instability grows, communities fragment: this is the fate of a city in the wake of globalization -- but is globalization really the cause? Proposing a new perspective on politics, globalization, and the city, this provocative book argues that such urban problems result in part from U.S. policies that can be changed. William Sites develops the concept of primitive globalization, identifying a pattern of reactive politics -- ad hoc measures to subsidize business, displace the urban poor, and dismantle the welfare state -- that uproots social actors (corporations, citizens, urban residents) and facilitates a damaging, short-term-oriented type of international integration. In light of this theory, Sites examines the transformation of New York City since the 1970s, focusing on the logic of political action at national, local, and neighborhood levels. In the process, the story of late twentieth-century New York and its Lower East Side community emerges as something different: not a tale of globalist transformation or of local resurgence but a distinctly American case, one in which urban politics and the state, in their own right, exacerbate inequality and community fragmentation within the city.

Contents:

Primitive globalization? State, economy, and urban development

Building an urban neoliberalism

Public action

Urban movements, local control

Beyond primitive globalization.

Notes:

Revision of thesis (doctoral--New York University).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.

ISBN:

0816641552

0816641560

OCLC:

51095572