City Power

Introduction: Cities, Capital, and Constitutions 1. What is the City? Building Blocks of Economic Life Byproducts and Products The City as a Process Conclusion: Mystery and Modesty 2. Decentralization and Development Competition and Growth The Historic Vulnerability of City Status What Does Decentralization Do? Conclusion: Freeing Cities from a False Constraint 3. Vertical Federalism: Making Weak Cities Legal Autonomy and Political Influence Federalism and City Power Technocracy versus Democracy Conclusion: "Things Could be Worse. I Could be a Mayor." 4. Horizontal Federalism: Encouraging Footloose Capital Inter-Municipal Border Controls Subsidizing Mobile Capital Conclusion: Economic [Dis]Integration 5. The City Redistributes I: Policy The Limits of City Limits Mandating a Living Wage Land-Use Unionism Regulating Through Contract Conclusion: Exercising Urban Power 6. The City Redistributes II: Politics Municipal Politics Matters Immobile Capital Translocal Networks Economic Localism Conclusion: The Re-emergence of the Regulatory City 7. Urban Resurgence Urban Policy and Urban Resurgence Assessing Economic Development Strategies Uncertainty and Economic Development Conclusion: Back to Basics 8. Urban Crisis Debt and Discipline Of Bailouts and Bankruptcy The Politics of Municipal Failure Conclusion: Marginal Cities Conclusion: Can Cities Govern? Notes Acknowledgements Index