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Cities in recession : critical responses to the urban policies of the new right

Title
Cities in recession : critical responses to the urban policies of the new right / editor, Ivan Szelenyi.
Publication
London ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1984.

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Additional Authors
Szelényi, Iván.
Description
311 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
This timely book presents a critical response to the urban policies currently being pursued by radical conservative administrations in Europe and America. The contributors provide a unique transatlantic view of cities in recession, and examine the impact that the urban policies of the New Right are.
Series Statement
Sage studies in international sociology ; v. 30
Uniform Title
Sage studies in international sociology ; v. 30.
Subject
  • Urban policy > United States
  • Urban policy > Europe
  • Urban economics
  • Cities and towns
  • Cities
  • cities
  • Urban economics
  • Cities and towns
  • Urban policy
  • Kommunalpolitik
  • Rechtsradikalismus
  • Stadt
  • Stadtsoziologie
  • Stedelijke economie
  • Overheidsbeleid
  • Urban policy > Congresses
  • Politique urbaine > Europe
  • Politique urbaine > États-Unis
  • Europe
  • United States
  • USA
  • Mexiko <Stadt, 1982>
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
The new class war in the United States / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- Business rationality and barriers to recapitalization / Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and S.M. Miller -- The decollectivization of consumption: housing and local government finance in England and Wales, 1979-1981 / Michael Harloe and Chris Paris -- Urban transportation policy for whom? Determinants and consequences of transit change in the United States and Germany / Glenn Yago -- Transnational capitalism and urban crisis: the case of the auto industry and Detroit / Richard Child Hill -- The social democratic state in a radical region: development agencies, industrial change and class relations in South Wales / Philip Cooke and Gareth Rees -- Austerity and the politics of resistance / Brian Elliott and David McCrone -- The working class and the state: the French experience in socialist and communist municipalities / Jean Lojkine -- The turn to the left among Italian cities and urban public policy / Michael Aiken and Guido Martinotti -- American urban theories and urban areas: some observations on contemporary ecological and Marxist paradigms / Herbert J. Gans.
ISBN
  • 0803997035
  • 9780803997035
LCCN
84050769
OCLC
  • ocm11635082
  • 11635082
  • SCSB-8935158
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library