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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban America. Plagued by ineffectual and inegalitarian governance, acute social problems such as extreme poverty, and social and economic injustice, many American cities suffer a fate similar to that of New Orleans before and after the hurricane. Gentrification and corporate redevelopment schemes merely distract from this disturbing reality. Compounding this tragedy is a failure in urban analysis and scholarship. Little has been offered in the way of solving urban America's problems, and much of what has been proposed or practiced remains profoundly misguided, in David Imbroscio's view. In Urban America Reconsidered, he offers a timely response. He urges a reconsideration of the two reigning orthodoxies in urban studies: regime theory, which provides an understanding of governance in cities, and liberal expansionism, which advocates regional policies linking cities to surrounding suburbs. Declaring both approaches to be insufficient-and sometimes harmful-Imbroscio illuminates another path for urban America: remaking city economies via an array of local economic alternative development strategies (or LEADS).Notable LEADS include efforts to build community-based development institutions, worker-owned firms, publicly controlled businesses, and webs of interdependent entrepreneurial enterprises. Equally notable is the innovative use of urban development tools to generate indigenous, stable, and balanced growth in local economies. Urban America Reconsidered makes a strong case for the LEADS approach for constructing progressive urban regimes and addressing America's deepest urban problems.

Urban policy --- Municipal government --- Community development, Urban --- Liberalism

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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban America. Plagued by ineffectual and inegalitarian governance, acute social problems such as extreme poverty, and social and economic injustice, many American cities suffer a fate similar to that of New Orleans before and after the hurricane. Gentrification and corporate redevelopment schemes merely distract from this disturbing reality. Compounding this tragedy is a failure in urban analysis and scholarship. Little has been offered in the way of solving urban America's problems, and much of what has been proposed or practiced remains profoundly misguided, in David Imbroscio's view. In Urban America Reconsidered, he offers a timely response. He urges a reconsideration of the two reigning orthodoxies in urban studies: regime theory, which provides an understanding of governance in cities, and liberal expansionism, which advocates regional policies linking cities to surrounding suburbs. Declaring both approaches to be insufficient-and sometimes harmful-Imbroscio illuminates another path for urban America: remaking city economies via an array of local economic alternative development strategies (or LEADS).Notable LEADS include efforts to build community-based development institutions, worker-owned firms, publicly controlled businesses, and webs of interdependent entrepreneurial enterprises. Equally notable is the innovative use of urban development tools to generate indigenous, stable, and balanced growth in local economies. Urban America Reconsidered makes a strong case for the LEADS approach for constructing progressive urban regimes and addressing America's deepest urban problems.

Urban policy --- Municipal government --- Community development, Urban --- Liberalism

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Municipal government --- Sociology, Urban --- Municipal government. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Local government. --- Administration municipale --- Politique urbaine --- #SBIB:35H1350 --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- Urban sociology --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Urban politics --- Organisatie en beleid: lokale besturen: algemeen --- Sociology of environment --- Urban policy. --- Sociologie urbaine --- Administration locale --- Local government --- Urban policy --- #SBIB:316.334.5U20 --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- City planning --- Urban renewal --- Cities and towns --- Municipalities --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Government

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This title provides a comprehensive introduction to, and evaluation of, the theoretical approaches to urban governance.

Municipal government. --- Urban policy. --- Local government. --- Sociology, Urban.

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City / Elvin Wyly -- Critical perspectives on the city: constructivist, interpretive analysis of urban politics / Mara S. Sidney -- Seeing like a city: how to urbanize political science / Warren Magnusson -- Reflections on urbanity as an object of study and a critical epistemology / Julie-Anne Boudreau -- Back to the future: Marxism and urban politics / Jonathan S. Davies -- Keeping it critical: resisting the allure of the mainstream / David L. Imbroscio -- The trouble with diversity / Jeff Spinner-Halev -- Do multicultural cities help equality? / Yasminah Beebeejaun -- Why do we want mixed-income housing and neighborhoods? / James DeFilippis and Jim Fraser -- Dispersal as anti-poverty policy / Edward G. Goetz and Karen Chapple -- Beyond sprawl and anti-sprawl / Thad Williamson.

Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development --- Stadscultuur. --- Sociology of environment --- Cities and towns --- Sociology, Urban --- Stedelijk beleid. --- Urban policy --- Study and teaching. --- Villes --- Sociologie urbaine --- Politique urbaine --- Study and teaching --- Etude et enseignement