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City power: urban governance in a global age
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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. ...read more
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Zoning : A Guide for 21st-Century Planning
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.
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Austerity urbanism or pragmatic municipalism? Local government responses to fiscal stress in New York State:
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.
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Rethinking shrinking cities: Peripheral dual cities have arrived
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.
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Geographies of Journalism: The Imaginative Power of Place in Making Digital News
Robert E. Gutsche,Kristy Hess +1 more
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.
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Charting Change in the City: Urban Political Orders and Urban Political Development:
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...
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Philanthropy and Economic Development: New Roles and Strategies:
TL;DR: For example, the authors showed that philanthropic investments in economic development, including grants, technical assistance, program-related investments, policy advocacy, and civic leadership, have increased during the past decades.
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The Perils of Rationalism in American Urban Policy
TL;DR: A strong and enduring commitment to liberalism marks much of urban policy discourse in the United States as discussed by the authors, and although this Liberal Urban Policy compares favorably with its neoliberal and neoconservati...
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Stop Worrying (So Much) about Exclusionary Zoning and Fight Our Real Enemies: A Reply to My Critics:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempt to address the critics of the anti-EZ project in the limited space allotted by the authors. They show, inter alia, how the Anti-Exclusionary Zoning (AntiEZ) Project: (1) brutally reproduces White supremacy, (2)...
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Ecological city-zenship
TL;DR: In this paper, the link between ecological citizenship and political participation in city-based citizenship and its ecological ramifications increasingly inform people's social and political lives, rendering the link connecting ecological citizenship with politic...
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Millennial ‘YIMBYs’ and boomer ‘NIMBYs’: Generational views on housing affordability in the United States:
TL;DR: The authors examines housing activism in five American cities using interviews with millennial-age housing activists, seeking more apartment development, and baby boomers who are members of neighbored groups. But they focus on the housing affordability issues.