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Author:   Timothy K. Barnekov ,  Robin Boyle ,  Daniel Rich ,  Daniel Rich (Professor, Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.487kg
ISBN:  

9780198232742

ISBN 10:   0198232748
Pages:   281
Publication Date:   01 August 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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