Produktbeschreibung
A comprehensive analysis of the political, economic and social dynamics that have made New York a megacity today.
Autorenporträt
Jill S. Gross is a Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and Director of the graduate program in Urban Policy and Leadership. She has served as President of the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and Chair of the Urban Affairs Association. She conducted research on the urban governance of migration as a European Union Fulbright Schuman Scholar. She is currently on the editorial boards of Journal Of Race, Ethnicity & The City and Urban Affairs Review. Her most recent works are Hyperlocal Place Governance in a Fragmented World (2022) and Constructing Metropolitan Space (coeditor) (2019). Hank V. Savitch is Emeritus Brown & Williamson Distinguished Professor of Urban & Public Affairs, University of Louisville. He currently teaches at Florida Atlanta University's Department of Urban and Regional Planning and is a Fellow at its Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions (CUES). He has been co-editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs and President of the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. He has published 13 books and more than 100 articles on various aspects of urban development and public policy. His co-authored book, Cities in the International Marketplace (2004) won the APSA award for best book in urban studies.