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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... major bond-rating 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 ...
... major downtowns, Phoenix metropolitan area Timeline of specific local actions and construction phases, Arizona Center development process Timeline of specific local actions and construction phases, Mercado development process Timeline ...
... major tenet of classical liberalism, following largely from Adam Smith (and the classical school of economics that he inspired), is that an unfettered market is the most efficient and effective means for encouraging individual autonomy ...
... major tenet of classical liberalism is a noninterventionist state. Classical liberals—in particular Smith, Bentham, and Acton—argued that the most effective way to achieve the aforementioned society of pleasure-seeking, marketoriented ...
... 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.
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 | |