Pushing austerity: state failure, municipal bankruptcy and the crises of fiscal federalism in the USA
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In this article, the authors examine the means by which the Wall Street crisis of 2008 has been translated into a state crisis, especially for the state at the subnational and urban scales.Abstract:
By way of a critical exploration of austerity politics in the USA, the paper examines the means by which the Wall Street crisis of 2008 has been translated into a state crisis, especially for the state at the subnational and urban scales. It examines the strategies, rationales and tactics adopted by advocates of austerity measures, which amount to a sustained effort to socialize, rescale and ‘dump’ the costs of the economic crisis. These manoeuvres are transforming the operating environment for state and local government in the USA, and they are remaking the terrains of urban politics at the same time.read more
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The revolution will not be paid: The politics of small town entrepreneurial economic development:
TL;DR: As poverty and unemployment rates rose in small towns in the United States following the economic crisis, austerity measures decreased access to social programs for the most vulnerable populations as mentioned in this paper, which resulted in fewer social services for the poor and marginalized.
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« Urbanisme d’austérité » et marginalisation des acteurs publics d’une ville en déclin : le cas de la rénovation urbaine à Detroit
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Pushing it! austerity urbanism and dispersed leadership through ‘fleet-of-foot’ mechanisms in times of crisis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the role of fleet-of-foot public leadership in crisis-governance responses to austerity urbanism and reveal that dispersed public leadership is problematic as a mode of crisisgovernance.
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Urban Social Sustainability: The Case Study of Nottingham, UK
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize social sustainability literature from a range of disciplinary perspectives and make the case for social justice at the heart of urban social sustainability, focusing on Nottingham, UK, known as one of the UK's greenest cities and a front-runner in environmental sustainability.
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Austerity urbanism: American cities under extreme economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors locate these developments in the context of mutating processes of neoliberal urbanism, commenting on some of its social and spatial consequences, and argue that these conditions are defining a new operational matrix for urban politics.