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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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