Urban Politics

Filling a gap in the peacemaking and conflict literatures market and including a set of over 100 interviews with local political and community leaders, this book will be helpful to scholars, international organizations, and grassroots organizations...

Sofie Bouteligier's innovative study examines theories of the network society and global cities from a global ecology perspective. Through direct observation, interviews, and using two types of city networks that have been treated separately in the literature, she discovers the structure and logic p..

_x005F_x005F_x000D_ City Branding explores different sides of place branding policies. This book aims to investigate and to reflect on the ideas of urban life, the political unconscious, the affective geographies and the imaginaries of power constructed and reproduced through urban branding. This cr..

_x005F_x000D_ City Branding explores different sides of place branding policies. This book aims to investigate and to reflect on the ideas of urban life, the political unconscious, the affective geographies and the imaginaries of power constructed and reproduced through urban branding. This critical..

How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain..

How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain..

This collection of original essays breaks new ground by examining the dynamics of ethnic politics at the local level, rather than following in the footsteps of many previous studies which focus on the macropolitical level of states and nations...

Previously published as a special issue of Policy Studies, this volume demonstrates the vitality of the field of urban politics and presents future challenges for urban political research...

Written as lively narratives in a highly readable style, this book offers a complete and succinct review and analysis of the top mayoral campaigns in major American cities in recent years and the key to winning elections and governing effectively in these metropolitan areas...

Written as lively narratives in a highly readable style, this book offers a complete and succinct review and analysis of the top mayoral campaigns in major American cities in recent years and the key to winning elections and governing effectively in these metropolitan areas...

First published in 1983, this book reports on the results of a survey in thirteen areas of England where the National Front (NF) had previously gained significant levels of electoral support and examines the social and political histories of these areas to reveal not only who and was voting for the ..

Regenerating London explores latest thinking on urban regeneration in one of the fastest changing world cities. Engaging with social, economic and political structures of cities, it highlights paradoxes and contradictions in urban policy and offers an evaluation of the contemporary forms of urban re..