Title: Privatism and Urban Policy in Britain and the United States
Abstract: Part 1 The pursuit of the private city: the pursuit of the private city in the 1980s privatism and the trans-Atlantic transfer evaluating privatism. Part 2 Urban policy traditions in the United States and Britain: the private city in America privatism and the planning response in Britain urban policy orientations in a comparative context. Part 3 Urban redevelopment and the US war on poverty: privatism and urban redevelopment privatizing the war on poverty. Part 4 Local economic development policy in the US: the evolution of local economic development policy municipal marketing and civic entrepreneurship pitfalls on the path to local economic development reshaping the Cinderella city rethinking local economic development policy. Part 5 The new privatism and urban America in the 1980s: the new urban reality and the urban agenda urban policy and the standard of economic efficiency the urban budget and the attack on local economic development voluntarism, community self-reliance and the new federalism enterprize zones and the romance of entrepreneurialism privatization of public services entrepreneurial cities and the technology chase impacts of the new privatism the Reagan legacy and the politics of urban disinvestment. Part 6 The redirection of British urban policy: the beginnings of policy redirection cities and the strategy of privatism the pattern of policy initiative. Part 7 Privatism and urban regeneration in Britain: leveraging urban regeneration urban development corporations and the centralization of policy enterprize zones and the displacement of the planning regime public-private partnerships and the marketing of cities Thatcher's divided kingdom. Part 8 Urban policy and the limits of privatism: the promise of privatism the limits of privatism post-industrialism and the politics of privatism.
Publication Year: 1989
Publication Date: 1989-10-05
Language: en
Type: book
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