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Pragmatic municipalism or austerity urbanism? Understanding local government responses to fiscal stress
Yunji Kim,Mildred E. Warner +1 more
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In this article, two contrasting views are found in the literature: "austerity urbanism" and "praglandic urbanism", and they are compared in the context of local government responses to the Great Recession.Abstract:
While national governments responded to the Great Recession with austerity, local government responses were varied. Two contrasting views are found in the literature: ‘austerity urbanism’ and ‘prag...read more
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City power: urban governance in a global age
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.
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Blocking the progressive city: How state pre-emptions undermine labour rights in the USA:
TL;DR: In this article, a counter-trend is found in state pre-emptions -state laws that prohibit cities from making any ordinances or laws that protect labour rights in the US.
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Grasping the nettle: the central–local constraints on local government funding in England
TL;DR: In England, the traditional method of central government redistribution and equalization between locations has been replaced with a greater emphasis on self-sufficiency and entrepreneurism as mentioned in this paper, which has been called self-reliance and entrepreneurship.
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The Attack on American Cities
TL;DR: The authors argues that antiurbanism is a long-standing and enduring feature of American federalism and seeks to understand how a constitutional system overtly dedicated to the principles of devolution can be so hostile to the exercise of municipal power.
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The issue of sustainability in a highly centrally regulated fiscal model of local governments: an empirical study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a broad data set of almost 3,200 local governments and network methods to assess the sustainability of local governments in a highly centrally regulated fiscal model.
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A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
TL;DR: The authors show that the Musgrave-Samuelson analysis, which is valid for federal expenditures, need not apply to local expenditures, and restate the assumptions made by Musgrave and Samuelson and the central problems with which they deal.
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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm.
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
TL;DR: The Rise of the Creative Class as mentioned in this paper describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant, with the result that our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to live, and even our sense and use of time are changing.
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Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place
John R. Logan,Harvey Molotch +1 more
TL;DR: A sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work as discussed by the authors.
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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
TL;DR: Austerity is the order of the day in Europe, but Professor Mark Blyth argues that austerity is a very dangerous idea and does not work as mentioned in this paper, arguing that all we do is shrink the economy.