Urban Politics

VOLUME 1: TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS
The Polis - Humphrey Kitto
The Early Polis as City and State - Ian Morris
Extract from Politics - Aristotle
Democratic Politics in Republican Rome - John North
Extracts from The City of God against the Pagans - Augustine
Subsidiarity, Federalism and the Best Constitution: Thomas Aquinas on city, province and empire - Nicholas Aroney
The Emergence of an Urban Ideology at Florence, c. 1250-1450 - George Holmes
The Great Towns - Frederick Engels
The Paris Commune - Karl Marx
The Arcades Project - Walter Benjamin
Extracts from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - William Riordan
Latent Functions of the Machine - Robert Merton
The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era - Samuel Hays
Urban Renewal and Social Conflict - Manuel Castells
From the City to Urban Society - Henri Lefebvre
Introduction to Un-Heavenly City: The nature and future of our urban crisis - Edward Banfield
The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety - Jane Jacobs
VOLUME 2: POWER AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
Extracts from Who Governs - Robert Dahl
The Local Community as Ecology of Games - Norton Long
The Structure of Power in Regional City - Floyd Hunter
Two Faces of Power - Peter Bachrach and Morten Baratz
The City as a Growth Machine - Harvey Molotch
Re-defining Urban Politics for the 21st Century - Allan Cochrane
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The transformation in urban governance in late capitalism - David Harvey
City Trenches: Urban politics and the patterning of class in the United States - Ira Katznelson
Systemic Power in Community Decision Making: Restatement of stratification theory - Clarence Stone
The Interests of the Limited City - Paul Peterson
The Urban Basis of Political Alignment: Social class, domestic property ownership, and state intervention in consumption processes - Patrick Dunleavy
Semi-Sovereign Cities: The politics of urban development - Todd Swanstrom
The World City Hypothesis - John Friedmann
Cities in Today′s Global Age - Saskia Sassen
Neoliberal Urbanism: Models, moments, mutations - Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner
Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis - Edward W. Soja
VOLUME 3: INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE
City, State and Market - Stephen Elkin
Toward a Theory of Urban Development - H. V. Savitch and Paul Kantor
Urban Regimes and the Capacity to Govern - Clarence Stone
Urban Regimes and Growth Machines: Towards a cross-national research agenda - Alan Harding
Governance as Theory: Five propositions - Gerry Stoker
Rescuing Aunt Sally: Taking institutional theory seriously in urban politics - Vivien Lowndes
Toward a Theory of Street-Level Bureaucracy - Michael Lipsky
The Urban Bureaucracy Anne - Mette Kjaer
Local Governance, the Crises of Fordism and the Changing Geographies of Regulation - Mark Goodwin and Joe Painter
Understanding Recent Trends in Central-Local Relations: Centralisation in Great Britain and decentralisation in the United States - Harold Wolman
Understanding Urban Governance: The contribution of rational choice - Keith Dowding et al
Life-style Values and Political Decentralization in Metropolitan Areas - Olivier Williams
Regionalisms: New and old - Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom
Metropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe - Neil Brenner
Deepening Democracy - Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright
The Democratic Anchorage of Governance Networks - Eva Sorensen and Jacob Torfing
The Limits of Partnership: An exit-action strategy for local democratic inclusion - Jonathan Davies
VOLUME 4: PUBLICS AND POLICIES
The Rise of the Creative Class - Richard Florida
Planet of Slums - Mike Davis
Class and Protest in Africa: New waves - David Seddon and Leo Zeilig
The Black Urban Regime: Structural origins and constraints - A. Reed Jr.
Universalism and Deconcentration: Why race still matters in poverty and economic development - J. Phillip Thompson, III
The Prospects for Political Equality: Is protest enough? - R.P. Browning, D.R. Marshall and D.H. Tabb
Gender and Sexuality - Judith Garber
Neither Romance nor Regulation: Re-evaluating community - James DeFillipis, Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge
Urban Social Movements in an Era of Globalization - Margit Mayer
Pivatism and the Limits of Local Economic Development Policy - Timothy Barnekov and Daniel Rich
The Politics of Local Economic Development - Harold Wolman with David Spitzley
Concentrated Poverty and Metropolitan Equity Strategies - Scott Bollens
Excavating the Logic of British Urban Policy: Neoliberalism as the "crisis of crisis management - Martin Jones and Kevin Ward
Local Policy Responses to Globalization: Place-based ownership models of economic enterprise - David Imbroscio, Thad Williamson and Gar Alperowitz
Sustainability and Infrastructure Planning in South Africa: A Cape Town case study - Mark Swilling
Reinventing Urban Citizenship - Rainer Bauböck
City Life and Difference - Marion Young