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Machine generated contents note: The Postindustrial Transformation of Pittsburgh -- Global City -- Tourist City -- Bankrupt City -- Power and the Study of Urban Politics -- Power: The Ability to Get Things Done -- Privatism: The Limited Power of Government -- The Subthemes of This Book -- Conclusion: The Urban Situation -- Key Terms -- The Natural Factors that Shape the Growth and Decline of Cities and Suburbs -- Hidden Urban Policy: How the Government Shapes Metropolitan Development -- The Importance of Corporate and Private Power -- How Public Policies and Private-Sector Actions Contribute to Homelessness -- Conclusion: Hidden Urban Policies, Private Power, and the Contemporary Urban Situation -- Key Terms -- Gentrification -- Who Transformed the Inner City: Urban Pioneers or Corporate Developers? -- Why Cities Promote Gentrification Despite Its Costs -- How Public and Private Institutions Promote Neighborhood Transformation -- Coping with Gentrification -- World Cities and the Global Hierarchy: The Position of Cities in a Global Economy -- Globalization: The Permeability of City Borders -- Conclusion: Globalization, Power, and Democracy -- Key Terms -- Moving Beyond the Old "Power Elite" versus "Pluralism" Debate -- "City Limits": How Economic Competition Shapes Local Politics -- Regime Theory: Power as Social Production -- The Transformation of San Francisco: Political Power and Economic Development in the Postindustrial City -- Conclusion: Constrained Local Politics -- Key Terms -- Municipal Incorporation, City Charters, and Local Fragmentation -- Dillon's Rule -- Preemption -- Home Rule -- State Regulations Regarding Local Annexation and Secession -- Local Government Finance: State Limitations on Local Taxing and Borrowing -- The Voter Tax Revolt and Recent Trends in Financing Local Government -- "Academic Bankruptcy" Laws: The State Takeover of Schools in Crisis -- The Formal Structure of City Government -- City Councils: No Miniature Reproductions of the U.S. Congress -- Women in Local Government -- The Difficult Task of Mayoral Leadership -- Minority Mayors and the Debate over Deracialization -- Conclusion: The Limited Position of Cities and the Prospects for Effective City Leadership -- Key Terms -- How Urban Machines Operated and How They Lasted for So Long -- Why Political Machines Declined -- Who Were the Reformers? The Ideology and Bias of the Reform Movement -- The Reforms and Their Impact -- Reform's Legacy: The Growth of Bureaucratic Power -- A New Generation of Reform -- Conclusion: The Postreform City -- Key Terms -- The Evolution of Citizen Participation -- Levels of Citizen Participation -- Treating the Public Not Only as Consumers But as Citizens and Partners -- Keys to Making Citizen Engagement Work -- The New Style of Community Organizations: Moving from Protest to Partnership -- Community Development Corporations -- E-Government and E-Democracy: From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 (and 3.0) -- Conclusion: Bottom-Up Participation, Deep Democracy, and the Facilitating Role That Government Can Play -- Key Terms -- The Power of Municipal Service Agencies: The Bureaucratic City-State -- The Importance of Street-Level Bureaucrats -- Professionalism: An Imperfect Cure for the Urban Bureaucracy Problem -- Performance Measurement: Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity in Municipal Government -- Coproduction and Business Improvement Districts (BIDS) -- Service Contracting and Privatization -- The Private Management of Public Schools -- Vouchers, Tax Credits, and Charter Schools: A Variety of School Choice Programs -- Conclusion: Improving Public Services -- Key Terms -- Suburban Diversity: The Changing Face of Suburbia -- Racial Stratification: Is It Race or Income that Determines Where People Live? -- Schools and Suburbia -- Suburban Land Use and Exclusion -- Suburban Autonomy and Metropolitan Fragmentation -- Can "Smart Growth" Curb Suburban Sprawl? -- "New Urbanism": Can We Build Better Suburbs? -- Conclusion: Moving from Suburban Autonomy to a Working Regionalism -- Key Terms -- Old-Style Restructuring: Annexation, Consolidation, and Metropolitan Government -- Is Metropolitan Government Really Desirable? Two Contrasting Schools of Thought -- Regional Cooperation, Old Style -- A New Regionalism for the Twenty-First Century: Improving Regional Governance, Not Creating Regional Government -- Building Regional Coalitions -- Conclusion: Governing Regions in a Global Age -- Key Terms -- The Constitutional Basis for Federal Urban Programs: Cooperative Federalism -- Grants-in-Aid: The Fuel of Cooperative Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations -- Types of Grants -- The Grant System: Its Accomplishments and Problems -- Why the United States Has No National Urban Policy -- Urban Policy for an Anti-Urban Age: Bill Clinton's "Stealth" Urban Approach -- Barack Obama's Hybrid Urban Approach -- The Continuing Importance of the States -- Conclusion: Finding Ways to Create Partnerships in an Anti-Urban Policy Age -- Key Terms -- The Continuing Emphasis on Economic Development -- The Future of Minority Empowerment -- Urban Policy in a Suburban Age: The End of Urban Policy? -- Toward Sustainable Cities -- The Urban Future: U.S. Cities in a Global Age -- Key Terms.
Includes bibliographical references and index.