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Private Metropolis
Author | : Dennis R. Judd,Evan McKenzie,Alba Alexander |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781452965345 |
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Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions In recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of “shadow governments” that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with municipalities and other local governments inherited from the urban past. Shadow governments take many forms, ranging from billion-dollar special authorities that span entire urban regions, to public–private partnerships and special districts created to accomplish particular tasks, to privatized gated communities, to neighborhood organizations empowered to receive private and public funds. They finance and administer public services ranging from the prosaic (garbage collection and water utilities) to the transformative (economic development and infrastructure). Private Metropolis demonstrates that this complex ecosystem of local governance has compromised and even eclipsed democratic processes by moving important policy decisions out of public sight. The quasi-public institutions of urban governance generally escape the budgetary and statutory restraints imposed on traditional local governments and protect policy decisions from the limitations and vagaries of electoral politics. Moving major policy decisions into a privatized and corporatized realm facilitates efficiency and speed, but at the cost of democratic oversight. Increasingly, the urban electorate is left debating symbolic issues only tangentially connected to the actual distribution of the resources that affect people’s lives. The essays in Private Metropolis grapple with the difficult and timely questions that arise from this new ecology of governance: What are the consequences of the proliferation of special authorities, privatized governments, and public–private arrangements? Is the trade-off between democratic accountability and efficiency worth it? Has the public sector, with its messiness and inefficiencies—but also its checks and balances—ceded too much power to these new institutions? By examining such questions, this book provokes a long-overdue debate about the future of urban governance. Contributors: Douglas Cantor, California State U, Long Beach; Ellen Dannin, Pennsylvania State U; Jameson W. Doig, Princeton U; Mary Donoghue; Peter Eisinger, New School; Steven P. Erie, U of California, San Diego; Rebecca Hendrick, U of Illinois at Chicago; Sara Hinkley, U of California, Berkeley; Amanda Kass, U of Illinois at Chicago; Scott A. MacKenzie, U of California, Davis; David C. Perry, U of Illinois at Chicago; James M. Smith, U of Indiana South Bend; Shu Wang, Michigan State U; Rachel Weber, U of Illinois at Chicago.
Second Metropolis
Author | : Blair A. Ruble |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2001-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521801796 |
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This book explores how social fragmentation led to pluralistic public policies in Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka.
Perfect City
Author | : Joe Berridge |
Publsiher | : Sutherland House Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1999439511 |
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"Cities, more than ever, are the engines of our economies and the ecosystems in which our lives play out. This means that questions about the perfectibility and sustainability of urban life are all the more urgent. Joe Berridge, one of the world's leading urban planners, takes us on an insider's tour of the world's largest and most diverse cities, from New York to London, Shanghai to Singapore, Toronto to Sydney, to examine what is working and not working, what is promising, and what needs to be fixed in the contemporary megalopolis. We meet the people, politicians, and thinkers at the cutting edge of global city making, and share their struggles and successes as they balance the competing priorities of growing their economies, upgrading the urban machinery that keeps a city humming, and protecting, serving, and delighting their citizens. We visit a succession of great urban innovations, stop by many of Joe's favorite restaurants, and leave with a startling view of the magical urban future that awaits us all. "--
Intimate Metropolis
Author | : Vittoria Di Palma,Diana Periton,Marina Lathouri |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781134120437 |
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Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private. Rather than focusing purely on public spaces—such as streets, cafés, gardens, or department stores—or on the domestic sphere, the book investigates those spaces and practices that engage both the urban and the domestic, the public and the private. The legal, political and administrative frameworks of urban life are seen as constituting private individuals’ sense of self, in a wide range of European and world cities from Amsterdam and Barcelona to London and Chicago. Providing authoritative new perspectives on individual citizenship as it relates to both public and private space, in-depth case studies of major European, American and other world cities and written by an international set of contributors, this volume is key reading for all students of architecture.
Hansard s Parliamentary Debates
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1138 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : PRNC:32101075720548 |
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Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis
Author | : James J. Connolly,Patrick Collier,Frank Felsenstein,Kenneth R. Hall,Robert Hall |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781442624238 |
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Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller cities, provincial districts, rural settings, and colonial outposts have produced, disseminated, and read print materials. Too often print media has been represented as an engine of metropolitan modernity. Rather than being the passive recipients of print culture generated in city centres, the inhabitants of provinces and colonies have acted independently, as jobbing printers in provincial Britain, black newspaper proprietors in the West Indies, and library patrons in “Middletown,” Indiana, to mention a few examples. This important new book gives us a sophisticated account of how printed materials circulated, a more precise sense of their impact, and a fuller of understanding of how local contexts shaped reading experiences.
The Intelligible Metropolis
Author | : Nora Pleßke |
Publsiher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2014-08-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783839426722 |
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Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.
A Treatise on the Law Privileges Proceedings and Usage of Parliament Fifth Edition Revised and Enlarged
Author | : Thomas Erskine May |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0026560616 |
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