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Tables of Contents for The Politics of Urban America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Introductory Essay: The Evolution of Urban Politics in America
1
11
The Political Economy of Cities
12
65
Editors' Essay The Nature of Urban Governance
12
2
The Interests of the Limited City
14
12
Paul E. Peterson
Urban Regimes: A Research Perspective
26
16
Clarence N. Stone
Semisovereign Cities: The Politics of Urban Development
42
17
Todd Swanstrom
Culture Wars and City Politics
59
18
Elaine B. Sharp
Part One The Evolution of American Urban Politics
The Mercantile Cities
77
20
Editors' Essay The Culture of Privatism
77
1
The Evnironment of Private Opportunity
78
9
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
The Urban Frontier
87
10
Richard C. Wade
Machine Politics
97
30
Editors' Essay The Politics of Clientelism
97
1
``To Hold Your District: Study Human Nature and Act Accordin''
98
3
William L. Riordan
The Latent Functions of the Machine
101
9
Robert K. Merton
Big-City Rainbow Politics: Machines Revividus?
110
17
Steven P. Erie
Reform Politics
127
45
Editors' Essay The Contest for Political Control
127
1
City Affairs Are Not Political
128
3
Andrew D. White
The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era
131
20
Samuel P. Hays
Winning the West to Municipal Reform
151
21
Amy Bridges
Part Two The Politics of the Contemporary American City
The Suburbs
172
30
Editors' Essay Government Against Government
172
1
The Gender Regimes of American Cities
173
13
Lynn M. Appleton
Suburban Autonomy
186
12
Michael N. Danielson
Edge City
198
4
Joel Garreau
The Central Cities
202
44
Editors' Essay Keeping the Peace: Governance
202
1
Citizen Participation in Urban Politics: Rise and Routinization
203
12
Christopher Howard
Michael Lipsky
Dale Rogers Marshall
The Limits of Urban Regime Theory: New York City Under Koch, Dinkins, and Giuliani
215
17
William Sites
The Political Transformation of Sunbelt Cities
232
14
Carl Abbott
Part Three Problems and Policy Issues of the New Millenium
Entrepreneurial Cities
246
50
Editors' Essay The Politics of Growth
246
2
When Disney Comes to Town
248
4
Richard Foglesong
The Politics of Bread and Circuses
252
14
Peter Eisinger
The Myth of Community Development
266
10
Nicholas Lemann
Can Politicians Bargain with Business? A Theoretical and Comparative Perspective on Urban Development
276
20
Paul Kantor
H. V. Savitch
The New Inequalities
296
60
Editors' Essay The Divided Metropolis
296
1
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
297
10
Fortress Los Angeles, The Militarization of Urban Space
307
19
Mike Davis
Enclosure, Community, and Public Life
326
14
Dennis R. Judd
Building a Foundation for Multiracial Cooperation
340
16
William Julius Wilson
National Policy and Local Governments
356
22
Editors' Essay Cities in a Federal System
356
1
Who Should Do What? Divided Responsibility in the Federal System
357
8
Paul E. Peterson
City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution
365
13
Peter Eisinger
The New Regional Politics
378
1
Editors' Essay Regional Politics in the Twenty-First Century
378
2
The Regional Economic Commons
380
13
William R. Barnes
Larry C. Ledebur
Conflict or Consensus? Forty Years of Minnesota Metropolitan Politics
393
7
Myron Orfield
Fat City: Understanding American Urban Form from a Transatlantic Perspective
400
4
Pietro S. Nivola
Is Regional Government the Answer?
404
Fred Siegel