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The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been
challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially
true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being
the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic
city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique
challenges that these cities face entering globalised, inter-urban
competition while not possessing a competitive political economy.
Varieties of Capital Cities offers empirically rich case studies of
four secondary capital cities: Bern, Ottawa, The Hague, and
Washington, D.C. Analysed with an innovative research framework,
this book shows through its clearly structured analysis, that while
the pressures facing these cities are the same, the mechanisms they
employ to cope with them are very different. They have formulated a
wide variety of policies to supplement their capital function with
economically promising profiles, even though they cannot escape
their destinies as government cities. This book is an impressive
contribution to an area of study largely neglected by urban
studies, political science, and economic geography. With vital
lessons for urban policy makers, the interested practitioner will
find a pool of inspiration for their urban strategies. Students and
scholars of these subjects will find this book interesting, and
will also find it invaluable as a lesson for how to develop and
execute comparative case studies.
Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their
nations - so-called 'secondary capital cities' (SCCs) - tend to be
overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political
science. Yet, capital cities play an important role in shaping the
political, economic, social and cultural identity of a nation. As
the seat of power and decision-making, capital cities represent a
nation's identity not only through their symbolic architecture but
also through their economies and through the ways in which they
position themselves in national urban networks. The Political
Economy of Capital Cities aims to address this gap by presenting
the dynamics that influence policy and economic development in four
in-depth case studies examining the SCCs of Bern, Ottawa, The Hague
and Washington, D.C. In contrast to traditional accounts of capital
cities, this book conceptualizes the modern national capital as an
innovation-driven economy influenced by national, local and
regional actors. Nationally, overarching trends in the direction of
outsourcing and tertiarization of the public-sector influence the
fate of capital cities. Regional policymakers in all four of the
highlighted cities leverage the presence of national government
agencies and stimulate the economy by way of various locational
policy strategies. While accounting for their secondary status,
this book illustrates how capital-city actors such as firms,
national, regional and local governments, policymakers and planning
practitioners are keenly aware of the unique status of their city.
The conclusion provides practical recommendations for policymakers
in SCCs and highlights ways in which they can help to promote
economic development.
This book explores cities and the intra-regional relational
dynamics often overlooked by urban scholars, and it challenges
common representations of urban development successes and failures.
Gathering leading international scholars from Europe, Australia and
North America, it explores the secondary city concept in urban
development theory and practice and advances a research agenda that
highlights uneven development concerns. By emphasising the
subordinate status of secondary cities relative to their dominant
neighbours the book raises new questions about regional development
in the Global North. It considers alternative relations and
development strategies that innovatively reimagine the subordinate
status of secondary cities and showcase their full potential.
This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to
describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements
in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of
controversy. David Kaufman analyzes texts by Kenneth Goldsmith,
Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman, Ara Shirinyan, Craig Dworkin, Dan
Farrell and Katie Degentesh to demonstrate that Uncreative Writing
is not a revolutionary break from lyric tradition as its proponents
claim. Nor is it a racist, reactionary capitulation to
neo-liberalism as its detractors argue. Rather, this monograph
shows that Uncreative Writing's real innovations and weaknesses
become clearest when read in the context of the very lyric that it
claims to have left behind.
Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their
nations - so-called 'secondary capital cities' (SCCs) - tend to be
overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political
science. Yet, capital cities play an important role in shaping the
political, economic, social and cultural identity of a nation. As
the seat of power and decision-making, capital cities represent a
nation's identity not only through their symbolic architecture but
also through their economies and through the ways in which they
position themselves in national urban networks. The Political
Economy of Capital Cities aims to address this gap by presenting
the dynamics that influence policy and economic development in four
in-depth case studies examining the SCCs of Bern, Ottawa, The Hague
and Washington, D.C. In contrast to traditional accounts of capital
cities, this book conceptualizes the modern national capital as an
innovation-driven economy influenced by national, local and
regional actors. Nationally, overarching trends in the direction of
outsourcing and tertiarization of the public-sector influence the
fate of capital cities. Regional policymakers in all four of the
highlighted cities leverage the presence of national government
agencies and stimulate the economy by way of various locational
policy strategies. While accounting for their secondary status,
this book illustrates how capital-city actors such as firms,
national, regional and local governments, policymakers and planning
practitioners are keenly aware of the unique status of their city.
The conclusion provides practical recommendations for policymakers
in SCCs and highlights ways in which they can help to promote
economic development.
This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to
describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements
in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of
controversy. David Kaufman analyzes texts by Kenneth Goldsmith,
Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman, Ara Shirinyan, Craig Dworkin, Dan
Farrell and Katie Degentesh to demonstrate that Uncreative Writing
is not a revolutionary break from lyric tradition as its proponents
claim. Nor is it a racist, reactionary capitulation to
neo-liberalism as its detractors argue. Rather, this monograph
shows that Uncreative Writing's real innovations and weaknesses
become clearest when read in the context of the very lyric that it
claims to have left behind.
In "Telling Stories," David Kaufmann focuses on Philip Guston's
controversial figurative paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s. He
looks at the early critical reception of these works to see what
the artist was actually doing and, at another level, to investigate
the odd alchemy of artists and their audiences. Grounding his
historical approach in careful readings of the paintings, Kaufmann
pays close attention to Guston's intense and complicated
relationship to Judaism. At the same time, by situating Guston in
the context of the fashions of the New York art world, Kaufmann
provides unique insight into the workings of that world at the
moment when the strictures of artistic modernism began to fade.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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