Fractured Cities
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Overview
Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict. Their fate is increasingly decided by the global actions of transnational corporations and market forces. Community groups find it difficult to gain access to the political system. Ethnic minorities strive for empowerment while indebted city governments battle to maintain basic services. Such is the urban crisis of the 1990s. Fractured Cities describes the political economy of urban change and explores the future of the city.
Synopsis
A book describing the political economy of urban change which explores the future of the city and the implications of social disorder and injustice.
Booknews
Concerned with urban change and the workings of the capitalist market, Jacobs describes how public choice and regulation theory addressed the market, both during and after the Reagan and Thatcher years, and how the theoretical and practical policy issues created by the "conservative revolutions" dramatically altered the political economy of the urban environment. Acidic paper. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)