Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Richard Schragger challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that cities can and should pursue aims other than making themselves attractive to global capital. Using the municipal living wage movement as an example, Schragger explains why cities are well-positioned to address issues likeincome equality and how our institutions can be designed to allow them to do so.
Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Richard Schragger challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that cities can and should pursue aims other than making themselves attractive to global capital. Using the municipal living wage movement as an example, Schragger explains why cities are well-positioned to address issues likeincome equality and how our institutions can be designed to allow them to do so.
Richard Schragger is the Perre Bowen Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he has taught for almost fifteen years. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, federalism, urban policy and the constitutional and economic status of cities.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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