CiNii Books - How ideas shape urban political development

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- Dilworth, Richardson
- Weaver, Timothy P. R.

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How ideas shape urban political development

edited by Richardson Dilworth and Timothy P.R. Weaver

（The city in the twenty-first century book series）

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2020

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Includes index

Summary: "Constructivist social scientists take it as self-evident that human societies are constructed by the people who inhabit them. The physical world does not prescribe a particular way that any society should be ordered, its order coming instead from the choices made by the people who comprise these societies. Cities are also historically and socially constructed, not natural creations. This is the basic message of this volume and makes a compelling case for the value of a constructivist approach to understanding urban political development. At a time when constructivism is growing across the social sciences, Richardson Dilworth, Timothy P. R. Weaver, and the other contributors to this volume have made a strong case for understanding why ideas have been the real drivers behind urban political development and why a constructivist understanding is more persuasive than conventional approaches"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

Preface. Urban political development and the politics of ideas / Robert Henry Cox and Daniel Béland
Chapter 1. Ideas, interests, institutions, and urban political development / Richardson Dilworth and Timothy P. R. Weaver
Chapter 2. How policy paradigms change : lessons from Chicago's urban renewal program / Joel Rast
Chapter 3. The idea of blight in Baltimore / Sally Ford Lawton
Chapter 4. How ideas stopped an expressway in Philadelphia / Marcus Anthony Hunter
Chapter 5. Manufacturing decline : the conservative construction of urban crisis in Detroit / Jason Hackworth
Chapter 6. The neoliberal city and the racial idea / Lester K. Spence
Chapter 7. Contested conceptions of pluralism between cities and Congress over national civil rights legislation / Thomas Ogorzalek
Chapter 8. Ideas in US education policy : reform, localism, and immigrant youths / Douglas S. Reed
Chapter 9. Ideas, institutions, intercurrence, and the Community Reinvestment Act / Amy Widestrom
Chapter 10. Immigrant identities and integration in the United States and Canada / Mara Sidney
Chapter 11. "Trying out our ideas" : enterprise zones in the United States and the United Kingdom / Timothy P. R. Weaver
Chapter 12. Ideas, framing, and interests in urban contention : the case of Santiago, Chile / Eleonora Pasotti
Chapter 13. Ideas, politics, and urban development in China / William Hurst
Chapter 14. Politics of dwelling : divergent ideas of home in Kolkata / Debjani Bhattacharyya
Chapter 15. Policy mobility and urban fantasies : the case of African cities / Vanessa Watson

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A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political development Ideas, interests, and institutions are the "holy trinity" of the study of politics. Of the three, ideas are arguably the hardest with which to grapple and, despite a generally broad agreement concerning their fundamental importance, the most often neglected. Nowhere is this more evident than in the study of urban politics and urban political development. The essays in How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development argue that ideas have been the real drivers behind urban political development and offer as evidence national and international examples-some unique to specific cities, regions, and countries, and some of global impact. Within the United States, contributors examine the idea of "blight" and how it became a powerful metaphor in city planning; the identification of racially-defined spaces, especially black cities and city neighborhoods, as specific targets of neoliberal disciplinary practices; the paradox of members of Congress who were active supporters of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s but enjoyed the support of big-city political machines that were hardly liberal when it came to questions of race in their home districts; and the intersection of national education policy, local school politics, and the politics of immigration. Essays compare the ways in which national urban policies have taken different shapes in countries similar to the United States, namely, Canada and the United Kingdom. The volume also presents case studies of city-based political development in Chile, China, India, and Africa-areas of the world that have experienced a more recent form of urbanization that feature deep and intimate ties and similarities to urban political development in the Global North, but which have occurred on a broader scale. Contributors: Daniel Beland, Debjani Bhattacharyya, Robert Henry Cox, Richardson Dilworth, Jason Hackworth, Marcus Anthony Hunter, William Hurst, Sally Ford Lawton, Thomas Ogorzalek, Eleonora Pasotti, Joel Rast, Douglas S. Reed, Mara Sidney, Lester K. Spence, Vanessa Watson, Timothy P. R. Weaver, Amy Widestrom.

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