Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age

Urban Politics brings together the classic and contemporary literature on urban politics and history with today’s pressing urban issues.

This book’s central theme is “power”—going beyond the formal institutions and structures of city and suburban government to explain who defines the urban agenda and who benefits from local services and investments. This book also presents a number of subthemes, including the impact of globalization, the dominant place of economic development concerns in the...