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City power: urban governance in a global age

20 Jan 2019-Urban Geography (Routledge)-Vol. 40, Iss: 4, pp 583-585
TL;DR: This paper argued that urban governance is an oxymoron and that cities cannot govern and that urban policy merely reflects external economic and political forces, and argued that "urban governance" is an illusion.
Abstract: Urban scholars have long grappled with the argument that “urban governance” is an oxymoron – that cities cannot govern and that urban policy merely reflects external economic and political forces. ...
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06 Nov 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take an institutional approach to zoning, positioning its practice within the larger political, social, and economic conflicts that shape local access for diverse groups across urban space.
Abstract: Zoning is at once a key technical competency of urban planning practice and a highly politicized regulatory tool. How this contradiction between the technical and political is resolved has wide-reaching implications for urban equity and sustainability, two key concerns of urban planning. Moving beyond critiques of zoning as a regulatory hindrance to local affordability or merely the rulebook that guides urban land use, this textbook takes an institutional approach to zoning, positioning its practice within the larger political, social, and economic conflicts that shape local access for diverse groups across urban space. Foregrounding the historical-institutional setting in which zoning is embedded allows planners to more deeply engage with the equity and sustainability issues related to zoning practice. By approaching zoning from a social science and planning perspective, this text engages students of urban planning, policy, and design with several key questions relevant to the realities of zoning and land regulation they encounter in practice. Why has the practice of zoning evolved as it has? How do social and economic institutions shape zoning in contemporary practice? How does zoning relate to the other competencies of planning, such as housing and transport? Where and why has zoning, an act of physical land use regulation, replaced social planning? These questions, grounded in examples and cases, will prompt readers to think critically about the potential and limitations of zoning. By reforging the important links between zoning practice and the concerns of the urban planning profession, this text provides a new framework for considering zoning in the 21st century and beyond.

59 citations


Cites background from "City power: urban governance in a g..."

  • ...If they wanted to, many state legislatures could change the way zoning is practiced city by city by majority vote (Schragger, 2016)....

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  • ...Others dislike zoning for being imposed city by city, town by town, and village by village rather than regionally or statewide (Schragger, 2016)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors warn about an austerity urbanism response wherein local governments cut and privatize services, while some scholars warn about a "cronosizing urbanism" response.
Abstract: As local governments respond to fiscal stress after the global financial crisis, some scholars warn about an austerity urbanism response wherein local governments cut and privatize services, while ...

41 citations


Cites background from "City power: urban governance in a g..."

  • ...…used narratives of local waste and mismanagement to make state intervention in local policymaking easier (Hinkley, 2017; Kim, 2018; Lafer, 2017; Loh, 2016; Mitchell, 2012; Peck, 2014), and states are using legal preemptions to constrain cities and counties (NLC, 2018; SiX, 2017; Schragger 2016)....

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TL;DR: In this article, a review essay contextualizes the articles included in the Journal of Urban Affairs special issue on promoting social justice and equity in shrinking cities and introduces a framework to guide them.
Abstract: This review essay contextualizes the articles included in the Journal of Urban Affairs’ special issue on promoting social justice and equity in shrinking cities. It introduces a framework to guide ...

41 citations


Cites background from "City power: urban governance in a g..."

  • ...This goes beyond recommendations for income equality, investments in affordable housing, improvements to public education, and other progressive reforms designed to create linkages between new development and poor communities (Bornstein, 2010; Florida, 2017; Goldsmith, 2016; Rosdil, 2017; Schragger, 2016)....

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  • ...…beyond recommendations for income equality, investments in affordable housing, improvements to public education, and other progressive reforms designed to create linkages between new development and poor communities (Bornstein, 2010; Florida, 2017; Goldsmith, 2016; Rosdil, 2017; Schragger, 2016)....

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01 Aug 2018
TL;DR: Geographies of Journalism as mentioned in this paper connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground journalism in a digital age to underline the complications and challenges that place-making in the press brings to institutions and ideologies.
Abstract: Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground journalism in a digital age to underline the complications and challenges that place-making in the press brings to institutions and ideologies. By introducing and applying approaches to geography, cultural resistance, and power as it relates to discussions of space and place, this book takes a critical look at how online news media shapes perceptions of locales. Through verisimilitude, storytelling methods, and journalistic evidence shaped by sources and news processes, the press play a critical role in how audiences shape interpretations of social conditions "here" and "there", and place responsibility for socio-political issues that appear in everyday life. Issues of proximity, place, territory, news myth, placemaking, and power align in this book of innovative and new assessments of journalism in the digital age. This is a valuable resource for scholars across the fields of human geography, journalism, and mass media.

40 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that cities are often the sites in which the helping hand and the clenched fist of the state makes first contact with the citizen, and that they are engines of national economic growth and, often, t...
Abstract: Cities matter. They are often the sites in which the helping hand and the clenched fist of the state makes first contact with the citizen. They are engines of national economic growth and, often, t...

37 citations

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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the deindustrialization of the city of Detroit in the 1940s and 1970s, and discuss the role of race and housing in this process.
Abstract: List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xiii Preface to the Princeton Classics Edition xv Preface to the 2005 Paperback Edition xxxii Acknowledgments li Introduction 3 PART ONE: ARSENAL 15 1. "Arsenal of Democracy" 17 2. "Detroit's Time Bomb": Race and Housing in the 1940s 33 3. "The Coffin of Peace": The Containment of Public Housing 57 PART TWO: RUST 89 4. "The Meanest and the Dirtiest Jobs": The Structures of Employment Discrimination 91 5. "The Damning Mark of False Prosperities": The Deindustrialization of Detroit 125 6. "Forget about Your Inalienable Right to Work": Responses to Industrial Decline and Discrimination 153 PART THREE: FIRE 179 7. Class, Status, and Residence: The Changing Geography of Black Detroit 181 8. "Homeowners' Rights": White Resistance and the Rise of Antiliberalism 209 9. "United Communities Are Impregnable": Violence and the Color Line 231 Conclusion. Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of Postindustrial America 259 Appendixes A. Index of Dissimilarity, Blacks and Whites in Major American Cities, 1940-1990 273 B. African American Occupational Structure in Detroit, 1940-1970 275 List of Abbreviations in the Notes 279 Notes 281 Index 365

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TL;DR: Sugrue as mentioned in this paper asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty, and why America's ''arsenal of democracy'' has become the symbol of the American urban crisis.
Abstract: Once America's \"arsenal of democracy, \" Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's dilemma of racial and economic inequality, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty.

194 citations

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25 Aug 2006

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06 Nov 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take an institutional approach to zoning, positioning its practice within the larger political, social, and economic conflicts that shape local access for diverse groups across urban space.
Abstract: Zoning is at once a key technical competency of urban planning practice and a highly politicized regulatory tool. How this contradiction between the technical and political is resolved has wide-reaching implications for urban equity and sustainability, two key concerns of urban planning. Moving beyond critiques of zoning as a regulatory hindrance to local affordability or merely the rulebook that guides urban land use, this textbook takes an institutional approach to zoning, positioning its practice within the larger political, social, and economic conflicts that shape local access for diverse groups across urban space. Foregrounding the historical-institutional setting in which zoning is embedded allows planners to more deeply engage with the equity and sustainability issues related to zoning practice. By approaching zoning from a social science and planning perspective, this text engages students of urban planning, policy, and design with several key questions relevant to the realities of zoning and land regulation they encounter in practice. Why has the practice of zoning evolved as it has? How do social and economic institutions shape zoning in contemporary practice? How does zoning relate to the other competencies of planning, such as housing and transport? Where and why has zoning, an act of physical land use regulation, replaced social planning? These questions, grounded in examples and cases, will prompt readers to think critically about the potential and limitations of zoning. By reforging the important links between zoning practice and the concerns of the urban planning profession, this text provides a new framework for considering zoning in the 21st century and beyond.

59 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors warn about an austerity urbanism response wherein local governments cut and privatize services, while some scholars warn about a "cronosizing urbanism" response.
Abstract: As local governments respond to fiscal stress after the global financial crisis, some scholars warn about an austerity urbanism response wherein local governments cut and privatize services, while ...

41 citations

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