The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American UrbanismCornell University Press, 2014 M01 15 - 248 pages The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world institutions like the IMF and World Bank impose on third-world countries and cities. The support of unimpeded trade and individual freedoms and the discouragement of state regulation and social spending are the putative centerpieces of this vision. More and more, though, people have come to recognize that first-world cities are undergoing the same processes. In The Neoliberal City, Jason Hackworth argues that neoliberal policies are in fact having a profound effect on the nature and direction of urbanization in the United States and other wealthy countries, and that much can be learned from studying its effect. He explores the impact that neoliberalism has had on three aspects of urbanization in the United States: governance, urban form, and social movements. The American inner city is seen as a crucial battle zone for the wider neoliberal transition primarily because it embodies neoliberalism's antithesis, Keynesian egalitarian liberalism. Focusing on issues such as gentrification in New York City; public-housing policy in New York, Chicago, and Seattle; downtown redevelopment in Phoenix; and urban-landscape change in New Brunswick, N.J., Hackworth shows us how material and symbolic changes to institutions, neighborhoods, and entire urban regions can be traced in part to the rise of neoliberalism. |
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... Keynesianism) inspired (and were in turn inspired by) a massive shift in governance during the mid–twentieth century toward a stronger, openly regulatory nationstate. Interventions were justified on several counts. First, a foundational ...
... Keynesian policy intervention was not limited to a demandside cover for capitalism. There were also a set of theoretical market failures that justified regulatory and redistributory interventions. Four such theorized failures emerged as ...
... Keynesian economists never intended for nonmarket forms of failure to serve as justifications for intervention, one could also add a fifth type of failure to this typology, because of its importance for justifying government ...
... Keynesian welfare state in particular, combined with a selective return to the ideas of classical liberalism, most strongly articulated by Hayek (1944; 1960) and Friedman (1984; 1962). Both Hayek and Friedman argued that government ...
... Keynesian state, such as public housing, income supplements, and medical subsidies. “Libertarian” think tanks such as the Cato Institute also served to promote and reproduce neoliberalism, as did large global institutions like the ...
Contents
The Glocalization of Governance | |
The PublicPrivate Partnership | |
The Acceleration of Uneven Development | |
The Neoliberal Spatial | |
The Reinvested Urban Core | |
Neoliberal Gentrification | |
Bread or Circus? | |
Contesting the Neoliberal City | |
Social Struggle in a Neoliberal Policy Landscape | |
Alternative Futures at the End of History | |
References | |