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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... agencies Bond ratings in federal regulations in the United States Historical bond ratings for New York, Philadelphia, and Detroit Relative population change in New York City, Philadelphia, and Detroit since 1950 Major federal public ...
... Agencies and Neoliberal Urbanism in the U.S.,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26, no. 4 (2002): 707– 25 (© Blackwell Publishing); “Post Recession Gentrification in New York City,” Urban Affairs Review 37, no. 6 ...
... agencies (see Gill 1995; Sassen 1996; Hackworth 2002a). The boundaries of urban governance have shifted dramatically in the past thirty years, partially because of structural constraints to governments (municipal or otherwise) in the ...
... agencies increasingly serve in this capacity. Bond-rating agencies are arguably the most directly influential “police officers” of neoliberal urban governance for cities in wealthy countries like the United States, Canada, and Japan.1 ...
... market for the provision of basic infrastructure, services, and economic development (Sbragia 1996). Their ability to enter this market is determined almost entirely by three multinational bond-rating agencies that draft credit reports.
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 | |