Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to
public urban problems The American city has long been a laboratory
for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based
solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable housing,
criminal justice, and education. Through richly told case studies
from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New
York, Neoliberal Cities provides the necessary context to
understand the always intensifying racial and economic inequality
in and around the city center. In this original collection of
essays, urban historians and sociologists trace the role that
public policies have played in reshaping cities, with particular
attention to labor, the privatization of public services, the
collapse of welfare, the rise of gentrification, the expansion of
the carceral state, and the politics of community control. In so
doing, Neoliberal Cities offers a bottom-up approach to social
scientific, theoretical, and historical accounts of urban America,
exploring the ways that activists and grassroots organizations, as
well as ordinary citizens, came to terms with new market-oriented
public policies promoted by multinational corporations, financial
institutions, and political parties. Neoliberal Cities offers new
scaffolding for urban and metropolitan change, with attention to
the interaction between policymaking, city planning, social
movements, and the market.
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