Cities in the International Marketplace
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Capital flight
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Capitalism
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Central business district
Central government
Chamber of commerce
City
City council
City manager
City region (United Kingdom)
Decentralization
Economic capital
Economic development
Economic forces
Economic growth
Economic integration
Economic interventionism
Economic restructuring
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Global city
Globalization
Governance
Infrastructure
Institution
International business
International city
International financial institutions
International Market Place
International relations
Inward investment
Legislation
Local government
Market power
Metropolitan area
National Policy
Political capital
Political economy
Political machine
Political party
Politician
Politics
Private sector
Public capital
Public expenditure
Public housing
Public participation
Subsidy
Suburb
Tax
The Image of the City
Unemployment
Urban culture
Urban density
Urban economics
Urban Enterprise Zone
Urban hierarchy
Urban planning
Urban politics
Urban renewal
Urban sprawl
Urban theory
Urbanism
Urbanization
Venture capital
Welfare
World Trade Organization
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- ISBN 9780691120140
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and strategic choice when international competition increasingly limits the importance of place? Cities in the International Marketplace looks at the political responses of ten cities in North America and Western Europe as they grappled with the forces of global restructuring during the past thirty years. H. V. Savitch and Paul Kantor conclude that cities do have choices in city building and that they behave strategically in the international marketplace. Rather than treating cities through case studies, this book undertakes rigorous systematic comparison. In doing so it provides an innovative theory that explains how city governments bargain in the capital investment process to assert their influence. The authors examine the role of economic conditions and intergovernmental politics as well as local democratic institutions and cultural values. They also show why cities vary in their approaches to urban development. They portray how cities are constrained by the dynamics of the global economy but are not its prisoners.
Further, they explain why some urban communities have more maneuverability than do others in the economic development game. Local governance, culture, and planning can combine with economic fortune and national urban policies to provide resources that expand or contract the scope for choice. This clearly written book analyzes the political economy of development in Detroit, Houston, and New York in the United States; Toronto in Canada; Paris and Marseilles in France; Milan and Naples in Italy; and Glasgow and Liverpool in Great Britain.
H. V. Savitch is the Brown and Williamson Distinguished Research Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville. He has published nine books, including "Post-Industrial Cities: Politics and Planning in New York, Paris, and London" (Princeton). Paul Kantor is Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. His many books include "The Dependent City Revisited" and "The Politics of Urban America".
