This timely book presents a critical response to the urban policies currently being pursued by radical conservative administrations in Europe and America. The contributors provide a unique transatlantic view of cities in recession, and examine the impact that the urban policies of the New Right are having in such crucial areas as housing, transport, local government, finance and industry. The alternative socialist policies that have emerged in response to urban austerity are fully analyzed, and the book points the way to a new approach to urban policy reflecting the changing needs of the urban community.
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`the volume can be confidently recommended to teachers and researchers.' -- Regional Studies, December 1986
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978-0-8039-9703-5 (9780803997035)
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PART ONE: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE NEW RIGHT - Ivan Szelenyi Introduction: Urban Policies of the New Right -- Critical Responses
The New Class War in the United States - Frances Fox Piven and Richard A Cloward
Business Rationality and Barriers to Recapitalization - Donald Tomaskovic-Devy and S M Miller
PART TWO: LEFT RESPONSES TO THE DECLINE OF PUBLIC HOUSING, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN JOBS
The Decollectivization of Consumption - Michael Harloe and Chris Paris
Housing and Local Government Finance in England and Wales, 1979-1981
Urban Transportation for Whom? Determinants and Consequences of Transit Change in the United States and Germany - Glenn Yago
Transnational Capitalism and Urban Crisis - Richard Child Hill
The Case of the Auto Industry and Detroit
PART THREE: LEFT RESPONSES TO THE POLICIES OF URBAN AUSTERITY
The Social Democratic State in a Radical Region - Philip Cooke and Gareth Rees
Development Agencies, Industrial Change and Class Relations in South Wales
Austerity and the Politics of Resistance - Brian Elliott and David McCrone
The Working Class and the State - Jean Lojkine
The French Experience in Socialist and Communist Municipalities
The Turn to the Left among Italian Cities and Urban Public Policy - Michael Aiken and Guido Martinotti
PART FOUR: A THIRD PARADIGM FOR URBAN SOCIOLOGY
American Urban Theories and Urban Areas - Herbert J Gans
Some Observations on Contemporary Ecological and Marxist Paradigms
