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Urban America Reconsidered - 9780801475658

Un libro in lingua di David Imbroscio edito da Cornell Univ Pr, 2010

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Imbroscio (political science, U. of Louisville) issues a challenge to two orthodoxies of American urban studies: urban regime theory, which describes (and often prescribes) informal arrangements between public officials and private actors for governance (the "urban regime") because the local state is ill-equipped for governance by itself, and the policy approach of liberal expansionism, which calls for expanding linkages between supposedly isolated central cities and institutions and resources outside the city through the intervention of an activist state that will promote liberal goals of enhancing opportunity. The fallacy of the first, he suggests, lies in too strict a demarcation between the public and the private, while the fallacy of the second lies in excessive individualism, materialism, and focus on individual mobility. His remedy for these failures is to move away from the "deep philosophical liberalism" that lies at the heart of both urban regime theory and liberal expansionism towards an approach that rests on an array of "local alternative development strategies" (LEADS) in which the institutional mix between public and private is more fluid, the value of collectives is recognized, success is understood less materially, and rootedness is emphasized over movement. Such LEADS might include community-based development institutions, worker-owned firms, publicly controlled businesses, and locally networked entrepreneurial enterprises. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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