American Urban Politics in a Global Age / Edition 8

by Annika Marlen Hinze, James M. Smith

Overview

Bringing together a selection of readings that represent some of the most important trends and topics in urban scholarship today, American Urban Politics in a Global Age provides historical context and contemporary commentaries on the economy, politics, culture, and identity of American cities. The eighth edition of this well-rounded and popular urban politics reader maintains the wide variety of reading selections it is known for, as well as many “classics,” while adapting to current events and developments in urban politics, and engaging cities in a post-pandemic world. All-new readings and important editorial commentary include:

• Recent political debates about policing, race, and ethnicity in the urban environment
• The impact of climate change on cities, and their roles in mitigating it, as well as preparing for it
• A discussion of gender politics in post-Trump American cities
• A reflection on the increasing importance of private players in city- and metro-politics, from implications for governance, to the growing corporate aspect of smart city initiatives, designed to help urban governments provide important services across cities and metropolitan regions; and
• An examination of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its impact on cities, from the initial, devastating outbreak in New York City in March 2020, to recurring shutdowns, life, urban development, and social polarization post-COVID

American Urban Politics in a Global Age remains an approachable scholarly resource for undergraduate and graduate classrooms, as well as a general, wide-ranging scholarly overview of the most important aspects of the field for researchers. It may be taught alongside City Politics: Cities and Suburbs in 21st Century America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138059375
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/22/2024
Edition description:	New
Pages:	502
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Annika Marlen Hinze is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Urban Studies at Fordham University, USA. Her research and teaching focus on urban politics, identity politics, immigration, qualitative and mixed methods research, and gender politics in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Turkey.

James M. Smith is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Master of Public Affairs program at Indiana University South Bend, USA. His research focuses on urban governance and institutions in U.S. cities, and he teaches courses in the Political Science Department focused on American political institutions, and in the Master of Public Affairs program on urban planning and public policy.

Table of Contents

Preface

 

Editors’ Introductory Essay

 

Part I: Governance and Political Economy

 

1. The Pillars of American Urban Scholarship in a Global Age

 

Editors’ Introduction

 

Selection 1  All Politics is Local: The Reemergence of the Study of City Politics

Jessica Trounstine

 

Selection 2  The Interests of the Limited City

Paul E. Peterson

 

Selection 3  The Future of Urban Regime Studies

Clarence N. Stone

 

Selection 4  Why History (Still) Matters: Time and Temporality in Urban Political Analysis

Joel Rast

 

2. The Politics of Urban Economic Development in a New Era

 

Editors’ Introduction

 

Selection 5  Techs and the Cities: A New Economic Development Paradigm?

Gary Sands, Pierre Filion and Laura A. Reese

 

Selection 6  Can Politicians Bargain with Business?

Paul Kantor and H. V. Savitch

 

Selection 7  “Re-Stating” Theories of Urban Development

James M. Smith

 

3. Public Power and Private Influence in Contemporary Cities

 

Editors’ Introduction

 

Selection 8  The Mauling of Public Space

Margaret Kohn

 

Selection 9  Beyond Community and Sharing: The Case of Airbnb in New York City

Katharina Knaus and Peer Illner

 

Selection 10  What Are Charter Schools and Do They Deliver?

Jon Valant

 

Part II: The Challenges of Governing the Divided Metropolis

 

4. Governing Factional Polities in America’s Urban Centers

 

Editors’ Introduction

 

Selection 11  Immigrants and Politics in San Francisco

Els de Graauw

 

Selection 12  White Power, Black Brokers

Mary Pattillo

 

Selection 13  A Descriptive Analysis of Female Mayors: The U.S. and Texas in Comparative Perspective

Melissa Marschall

 

5. Urban Resilience, Sustainability, and Climate Change

 

Editors’ Introduction

 

Selection 14  Is Detroit Dead?

Peter Eisinger

 

Selection 15  Do-It-Yourself Cities

Kimberley Kinder

 

Selection 16  Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us

Eric Dean Wilson

 

Selection 17  A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake: The Climate Crisis Haunts Chicago’s Future

Dan Egan

 

Selection 18  Civil Society and Sustainable Cities

Kent E. Portney and Jeffrey Berry

 

6. Governance, Gentrification, and Neighborhoods

 

Editors’ Introduction

 

Selection 19  What is Wrong with Gentrification?

Margaret Kohn

 

Selection 20  Gentrifier? Who, Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the Mirror

John Joe Schlichtman and Jason Patch

 

Part III: Crises and Ways Forward

 

7. The Year 2020 and Its Aftermath

 

Editors’ Introduction

 

Selection 21  The Epicenter

Dan Barry, Annie Correal and Todd Heisler

 

Selection 22  Structurally Vulnerable Neighborhood Environments and Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Inequities

Rachel L. Berkowitz, Xing Gao, Eli K. Michaels and Mahasin S. Mujahid

 

Selection 23  COVID-19 Cases in New York City, a Neighborhood-Level Analysis

The Stoop, NYU Furman Center Blog

 

Selection 24  Where Do Black Lives Matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Jenna M Loyd and Anne Bonds

 

8. Cities in Control? Finding Solutions to Broad Issues

 

Editors’ Introduction

 

Selection 25  5 Ways Cities Led in Pandemic Recovery

Lindsey Volz

 

Selection 26  New Data Reveal Most Populous Cities Experienced Some of the Largest Decreases

Amel Toukabri and Crystal Delbé

 

Selection 27  Big Cities Aren’t Dividing America. They Hold the Key to Our Collective Future

Amy Liu and Alan Berube

 

Selection 28  If Mayors Ruled the World: Why They Should and How They Already Do

Benjamin R. Barber