City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age

— —

Richard Schragger (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School)

City Power

Urban Governance in a Global Age

Richard Schragger (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School)

$77.95

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Oxford University Press Inc
08 December 2016

Urban communities; Regional government; Urban economics; Local government law

Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change.

In City Power, Richard C. Schragger challenges the existing assumptions, arguing that cities can govern, but only if we let them. In the past decade, city leaders across the country have raised the minimum wage, expanded social services, and engaged in social welfare redistribution. These cities have not suffered capital flight. In fact, many are experiencing an economic renaissance. Schragger argues that city policies are not limited by the demands of mobile capital, but instead by constitutional restraints serving the interests of state and federal officials. Maintaining weak cities is a political choice. In this new era of global capital, the power of cities is more relevant to citizen well-being than ever before. A dynamic vision of city politics for our new urban age, City Power reveals how cities can govern despite these constitutional limits - and why we should want them to.

By: Richard Schragger (Professor of Law Professor of Law University of Virginia Law School)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780190246662
ISBN 10: 0190246669
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 08 December 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Schragger is the Perre Bowen Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he has taught for almost fifteen years. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, federalism, urban policy and the constitutional and economic status of cities.

Reviews for City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age

""I have been recommending this book to my friends working in community economic development, who are trying to understand what distinctive competency can mean in a global market. I have also been recommending it to students of urban theory, who share the pleasure of following along in the construction of theory-and the space to deconstruct it further. Researchers will find here a raft of theoretical propositions begging for empirical confirmation. And I recommend it to anyone else, for the enthralling fun of watching someone build something new and marvelous from a heap of simple pieces. After reading this book, you will no longer see things quite the same as you did before."" -- Tony Filipovitch, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Journal of Urban Affairs ""What if cities could exercise the power Schragger suggests? City Power provides a brilliant and challenging legal analysis of the possibilities of local government reform."" -- Myron Orfield, University of Minnesota ""City Power challenges conventional thinking about what cities should be empowered to do. Instead of focusing on an inter-jurisdictional battle for economic growth, it argues, cities should concentrate on improving basic city services for their own citizens. Whether you agree or argue with it, this book will sharpen your thinking about city power and city powerlessness. A real contribution."" -- Gerald Frug, Harvard Law School ""Cities are coming back and experimenting with new policies to improve the quality of life and reduce economic inequality. A tour de force of urban scholarship, City Power is the best single source on the possibilities and pitfalls of emerging local progressive movements."" -- Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri