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The Contested City (Paperback)
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Over the last five decades American cities have been transformed as
profoundly and tumultuously as they were during the industrial
revolution. In contrast to that earlier era, this contemporary
transformation has been stimulated and guided by governmental
intervention. John H. Mollenkopf analyzes the government programs
and the supporting political coalitions that made this intervention
possible. His book shows how the success of these programs,
developed largely by urban liberal Democrats, led to new conflicts
that ultimately undermined urban development policy. Using Boston
and San Francisco as case studies, the author shows how urban
development programs influenced and were influenced by big-city
politics. He denies that the current impasse in national politics
and urban development stems from technical inadequacies in existing
policies. Instead, he argues, it results from failure to reconcile
the conflicting interests of dominant urban economic institutions
and the urban populace--a failure that led not only to the collapse
of the postwar urban development consensus but to the disarray of
the Democratic party itself. His suggestions as to how consensus
can be restored will fascinate anyone concerned with the future of
American politics and the American city.
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