Cities in recession : critical responses to the urban policies of the new right

Author(s)

• Szelényi, Iván

Bibliographic Information

Cities in recession : critical responses to the urban policies of the new right

editor, Ivan Szelenyi

（Sage studies in international sociology, v. 30）

Sage Publications, c1984

Note

Includes bibliographies

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This timely book presents a critical response to the urban policies currently being pursued by radical conservative administrations in Europe and America. The contributors provide a unique transatlantic view of cities in recession, and examine the impact that the urban policies of the New Right are having in such crucial areas as housing, transport, local government, finance and industry. The alternative socialist policies that have emerged in response to urban austerity are fully analyzed, and the book points the way to a new approach to urban policy reflecting the changing needs of the urban community.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE NEW RIGHT - Ivan Szelenyi Introduction: Urban Policies of the New Right -- Critical Responses The New Class War in the United States - Frances Fox Piven and Richard A Cloward Business Rationality and Barriers to Recapitalization - Donald Tomaskovic-Devy and S M Miller PART TWO: LEFT RESPONSES TO THE DECLINE OF PUBLIC HOUSING, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN JOBS The Decollectivization of Consumption - Michael Harloe and Chris Paris Housing and Local Government Finance in England and Wales, 1979-1981 Urban Transportation for Whom? Determinants and Consequences of Transit Change in the United States and Germany - Glenn Yago Transnational Capitalism and Urban Crisis - Richard Child Hill The Case of the Auto Industry and Detroit PART THREE: LEFT RESPONSES TO THE POLICIES OF URBAN AUSTERITY The Social Democratic State in a Radical Region - Philip Cooke and Gareth Rees Development Agencies, Industrial Change and Class Relations in South Wales Austerity and the Politics of Resistance - Brian Elliott and David McCrone The Working Class and the State - Jean Lojkine The French Experience in Socialist and Communist Municipalities The Turn to the Left among Italian Cities and Urban Public Policy - Michael Aiken and Guido Martinotti PART FOUR: A THIRD PARADIGM FOR URBAN SOCIOLOGY American Urban Theories and Urban Areas - Herbert J Gans Some Observations on Contemporary Ecological and Marxist Paradigms

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Details

• NCID: BA00605810
• ISBN:
  • 0803997035
• LCCN: 84050769
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; Beverly Hills, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: 311 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HT123
  • DC19 : 330.9173/2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Urban policy -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Urban policy -- Europe -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00466485