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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... Capital, Marx mockingly paraphrases the simplistic appeal of liberal thought: This sphere that we are deserting, within whose boundaries the sale and purchase of labour-power goes on, is in fact a very Eden of the innate rights of man ...
... capital was revived via a transfer to the urban fringe, but the inner city was left to disinvest for several decades in the mid–twentieth century (see N. Smith 1990). It would not be until the early 1970s that this bundle of political ...
... capital. The 1990s were a particularly important phase in the transition toward neoliberal urban governance.1 As Robert Lake recently remarked, “in the turbulent politics of the 1990s, the major Governing the Neoliberal City.
... capital flight (as important as that is) than because of an institutionally rigid set of ideological constraints imposed by finance capital. For cities in the “developing world” (and for many that are not), the International Monetary ...
... capital are locally dependent and that while capital might have the upper hand overall, localities have some autonomy (Cox and Mair 1988; Cox 1993). Consistent throughout much of this literature is the notion that autonomy is a mindset ...
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 | |