Urban innovation : creative strategies for turbulent times
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Urban innovation : creative strategies for turbulent times
Sage Publications, c1994
- : pbk
Available at 20 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The book provides a wealth of statistically-based evidence to substantiate or repudiate important arguments and assumptions central to the radical changes that are occurring in cities and municipal government. --Max Barlow in Journal of Economic and Social Geography More and more often, city governments operate under turbulent conditions: severe cutbacks in grants from national governments, drop in voter turnouts, taxpayer revolts, and a population of dissatisfied citizens. Urban Innovation addresses these issues by exploring how cities can innovate in the face of such challenges. Based on survey data from the Fiscal Austerity and Innovation Project, this volume reassesses theories of political leadership and government decision making, discusses the ways that cities have made innovations over the past decade, and reviews 33 specific strategies and their results. Some of the other issues this volume addresses are race and class, the growth and decline of city governments, and the intergovernmental aid cutbacks made during the Reagan administration. The turbulence of the past two decades is critical in reshaping our way of thinking about how governments work. Urban Innovation will be useful for students, faculty, and professionals in urban studies, political science, and policy studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Turbulence and Innovation in Urban America - Terry Nichols Clark
PART ONE: OLD CLEAVAGES AND NEW LEADERS
Race and Class versus the New Political Culture - Terry Nichols Clark
Containing Cleavages - Rowan A Miranda
Parties and Other Hierarchies
PART TWO: MAKING FUNDAMENTAL POLICY CHOICES
The Antigrowth Machine - Terry Nichols Clark and Edward G Goetz
Can City Government Control, Limit or Manage Growth
Growth and Decline of City Government - Rowan A Miranda and Norman Walzer
PART THREE: COPING IN LEAN YEARS II:
MAKING FUNDAMENTAL POLICY CHANGES
Cuts, Cultures, and City Limits in Reagan's New Federalism - Cal Clark and Oliver Walter
Contracting Out - Rowan A Miranda
A Solution with Limits
Innovations That Work - Terry Nichols Clark
A Menu of Strategies
by "Nielsen BookData"