This work addresses the paradoxical finding that some US cities can impose burdensome regulations and extract social and environmental contributions from the private sector despite these cities' alleged vulnerability to mobile capital.
This work addresses the paradoxical finding that some US cities can impose burdensome regulations and extract social and environmental contributions f...
Housing is no longer about having a place to live - but about state pressures to conform, norms and policies regarding citizenship, and practices of surveillance and security. Breaking new ground in the field of urban politics and international relations, Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe examines and critiques legislative initiatives and examines governmental attempts to reframe urban property squatting as a crime and a threat to domestic security.
Using examples from France, Netherlands, Denmark, and Great Britain, Mary Manjikian argues that developments...
Housing is no longer about having a place to live - but about state pressures to conform, norms and policies regarding citizenship, and practices o...
Some of the most populated and storied American cities had mayoral elections in 2013. Open contests in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston, for example, offer laboratories to examine electoral trends in urban politics. Cities are facing varied predicaments. Boston was rocked by the bombing of the marathon on April 15. Detroit is roiled by being the largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy, and Chicago, which had an open, competitive election in 2011, is dealing with significant gun violence. San Diego's mayor resigned in August 2013 due to sexual harassment charges and other mayors are...
Some of the most populated and storied American cities had mayoral elections in 2013. Open contests in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston, for e...
Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems. How do these local officials think? Why do they only sometimes cooperate? What kind of governance do they choose in the face of persistent problems?
The Risk of Regional Governance offers a new perspective on these questions. Drawing on theory from sociology and anthropology, it argues that many of the most important cooperative decisions local officials make--those about...
Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together ac...
A city, any city, can be understood as a product of politics and economics, and organizations and people yet accounts of the post-displacement experiences of marginalized communities are scarce, particularly for a gendered understanding of resettlement activities.
In this book, Ramya Ramanath explores the pre- to post-resettlement experiences of women in one of the largest urban slum resettlement sites in Mumbai. Using a narrative approach and combining a wealth of data from women of different ages, caste, ethnicity, religion, education, marital, residential, and employment status...
A city, any city, can be understood as a product of politics and economics, and organizations and people yet accounts of the post-displacement experie...
