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03830aam a2200433 i 4500 001 64840A5A8B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 160502t20162016nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016009577 020 $a 0190246669 020 $a 9780190246662 035 $a (OCoLC)941875049 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d BUF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HT321 $b .S36 2016 082 00 $a 307.76 $2 23 084 $a POL040040 $a POL023000 $a POL040040 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Schragger, Richard C., $d 1970- $e author. 245 10 $a City power : $b urban governance in a global age / $c Richard Schragger. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xi, 322 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Schragger challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that cities can and should pursue aims other than making themselves attractive to global capital. Using the municipal living wage movement as an example, Schragger explains why cities are well-positioned to address issues like income equality and how our institutions can be designed to allow them to do so"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Cities, Capital, and Constitutions -- 1. What is the City? -- Building Blocks of Economic Life -- Byproducts and Products -- The City as a Process -- Conclusion: Mystery and Modesty -- 2. Decentralization and Development -- Competition and Growth -- The Historic Vulnerability of City Status -- What Does Decentralization Do? -- Conclusion: Freeing Cities from a False Constraint -- 3. Vertical Federalism: Making Weak Cities -- Legal Autonomy and Political Influence -- Federalism and City Power -- Technocracy versus Democracy -- Conclusion: "Things Could be Worse. I Could be a Mayor." -- 4. Horizontal Federalism: Encouraging Footloose Capital -- Inter-Municipal Border Controls -- Subsidizing Mobile Capital -- Conclusion: Economic [Dis]Integration -- 5. The City Redistributes I: Policy -- The Limits of City Limits -- Mandating a Living Wage -- Land-Use Unionism -- Regulating Through Contract -- Conclusion: Exercising Urban Power -- 6. The City Redistributes II: Politics -- Municipal Politics Matters -- Immobile Capital -- Translocal Networks -- Economic Localism -- Conclusion: The Re-emergence of the Regulatory City -- 7. Urban Resurgence -- Urban Policy and Urban Resurgence -- Assessing Economic Development Strategies -- Uncertainty and Economic Development -- Conclusion: Back to Basics -- 8. Urban Crisis -- Debt and Discipline -- Of Bailouts and Bankruptcy -- The Politics of Municipal Failure -- Conclusion: Marginal Cities -- Conclusion: Can Cities Govern? -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index. 650 0 $a Municipal government $x Economic aspects. 650 0 $a Municipal government $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Urban policy. 650 0 $a Income distribution $x Government policy. 650 0 $a Living wage movement. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x City Planning & Urban Development. $x City Planning & Urban Development. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x Economic Conditions. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x Local. $x Local. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i Online version: $a Schragger, Richard C., 1970- author. $t City power. $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016 $z 9780190246679 $w (DLC) 2016021497 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103020025.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214021442.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=64840A5A8B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search