City power : urban governance in a global age / Richard C. Schragger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schragger, Richard C., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Municipal government--Economic aspects.

Municipal government.

Municipal government--Social aspects.

Urban policy.

Income distribution--Government policy.

Income distribution.

Living wage movement.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Schragger challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that cities can and should pursue aims other than making themselves attractive to global capital. Using the municipal living wage movement as an example, Schragger explains why cities are well-positioned to address issues like income equality and how our institutions can be designed to allow them to do so"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Schragger, Richard C., 1970- author. City power.

ISBN:

9780190246662

0190246669

OCLC:

941875049