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Marxism and the metropolis : new perspectives in urban political economy
- Title
- Marxism and the metropolis : new perspectives in urban political economy / edited by William K. Tabb and Larry Sawers.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1984.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- x, 390 pages; 25 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- k – Conference – v – Papers (document genres)
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Papers from a second conference on new perspectives in the urban economy held at American University, Washington, D.C., in May 1981. Only four of the papers in the first edition are repeated.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Credits (note)
- Papers delivered at a conference held at the American University in Washington, D.C. in May 1981.
- Contents
- New Perspectives on the Urban Political Economy / Larry Sawers -- PART ONE: FROM CITY TO METROPOLIS -- Capitalist Development and the History of American Cities / David M. Gordon -- Urbanization and the Dynamics of Suburban Development Under Capitalism / Patrick J. Ashton -- Class and Urban Social Expenditure: A Marxist Theory of Metropolitan Government / Ann R. Markusen -- City Limits: Municipal Boundary Formation and Class Segregation / Charles Hoche -- PART TWO: POLITICAL STRUGGLE AND HOUSING -- Austerity, Shelter, and Social Conflict in the US / Richard T. LeGates & Karen Murphy -- Large Builders, Federal Housing Programs, and Postwar Suburbanization / Barry Checkoway -- The Tenants Movement / Peter Dreier -- PART THREE: PLANNING THE METROPOLIS -- From Industrial to Corporate City: The Role of Urban Renewal / Nancy Kleniewski -- The Political Economy of Urban Transportation: An Interpretive Essay / Larry Sawers -- The Failures of National Urban Policy / William K. Tabb -- PART FOUR: POLITICAL STRUGGLE AND FISCAL CRISIS -- Political Conflict, Urban Structure, and the Fiscal Crisis / Roger Friedland, Frances Fox Piven & Robert R. Alford -- Fiscal Crisis, Austerity Politics, and Alternative Urban Policies / Richard Child Hill -- The New York City Fiscal Crisis / William K. Tabb -- Management Strategies in Public Sector Labor Law: A Case Study of New York City / Mark Maier -- PART FIVE: EPILOGUE -- A Pro-People Urban Policy / William K. Tabb.
- ISBN
- 0195033078
- 9780195033076
- 0195033086
- 9780195033083
- LCCN
- 82025965
- OCLC
- ocm09194635
- 9194635
- SCSB-8957285
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library