By Mark Davidson, Deborah Martin
ISBN-10: 0857023977
ISBN-13: 9780857023971
This serious, idea scary dialogue of latest city politics areas key matters in a geographical context. The textual content presents a radical theoretical grounding with an intensive thematic review. This new angle hyperlinks classical, institutional city politics with a broader set of city politics and practices. With case examine fabric built-in all through, and attention given to the dialogue of other city politics from a number of theoretical views, it is a thoroughly modern evaluate for college students of city geography, city experiences, city sociology, and naturally, city politics.
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Roads, schools, trash collecting) this urban politics is based squarely upon economic development. In a world of economic competition, cities have transformed the ways they are governed in order that they achieve requisite economic growth. But, as Ward explains, this is not to say we can consider the city as discrete entity that competes with other cities. Rather we might need to see the city as ‘splintered’ in that different policies and strategies shift from city to city. Using the example of Calgary, Ward narrates how the tentacles of American think-tanks stretched into, and shaped, the city’s planning process.
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