Cities in the International Marketplace : The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe / H. V. Savitch, Paul Kantor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savitch, H. V., author.

Kantor, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Europe, Western.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--North America.

Urban policy.

Urban economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 445 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and strategic choice when international competition increasingly limits the importance of place? Cities in the International Marketplace looks at the political responses of ten cities in North America and Western Europe as they grappled with the forces of global restructuring during the past thirty years. H. V. Savitch and Paul Kantor conclude that cities do have choices in city building and that they behave strategically in the international marketplace. Rather than treating cities through case studies, this book undertakes rigorous systematic comparison. In doing so it provides an innovative theory that explains how city governments bargain in the capital investment process to assert their influence. The authors examine the role of economic conditions and intergovernmental politics as well as local democratic institutions and cultural values. They also show why cities vary in their approaches to urban development. They portray how cities are constrained by the dynamics of the global economy but are not its prisoners. Further, they explain why some urban communities have more maneuverability than do others in the economic development game. Local governance, culture, and planning can combine with economic fortune and national urban policies to provide resources that expand or contract the scope for choice. This clearly written book analyzes the political economy of development in Detroit, Houston, and New York in the United States; Toronto in Canada; Paris and Marseilles in France; Milan and Naples in Italy; and Glasgow and Liverpool in Great Britain.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Photographs

Figures

Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One. The Great Transformation and Local Choices

Chapter Two. Toward a Theory of Urban Development

Chapter Three. Ten Cities, Thirty Years

Chapter Four. Social- and Market-Centered Strategies

Chapter Five. Driving and Steering Urban Strategy

Chapter Six. Dirigiste and Entrepreneurial Bargaining

Chapter Seven. Dependent Bargaining: Public and Private

Chapter Eight. Are Cities Converging?

Chapter Nine. Strategies for the International Marketplace

Chapter Ten. Conclusions: Cities Need Not Be Leaves in the Wind

Appendix Tables and Figures Sources and Notes

Author-Source Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-424) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691186504

0691186502

OCLC:

1132227983