Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age

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Myron A. Levine (Wright State University, USA) Heywood T. Sanders (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

Urban Politics

Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age

Myron A. Levine (Wright State University, USA), Heywood T. Sanders (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

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Routledge
30 March 2025

Urban communities; Ethnic studies; Public administration; Regional government; Organisational theory & behaviour

Urban Politics brings together the classic and contemporary literature on urban politics and history with today’s pressing urban issues.

This book’s central theme is “power”—going beyond the formal institutions and structures of city and suburban government to explain who defines the urban agenda and who benefits from local services and investments. This book also presents a number of subthemes, including the impact of globalization, the dominant place of economic development concerns in the urban agenda, and the continuing importance of race and poverty in big city and suburban politics. It also places cities in the larger context of state and federal government politics and policies and discusses the impact of those policies. Urban Politics seeks to engage students with photographs, real-world case studies, and boxed material that employs films, video, television shows, and popular music to illustrate how urban politics “works.” Urban Politics has been updated and revised to reflect the complex circumstances of both urban “success stories” and the difficult realities of “cities left behind” and to add new material on concentrated poverty, climate change, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 11th edition of Urban Politics is an ideal introductory text for students of urban, suburban, and regional politics and policy. This book’s coverage of contemporary issues, urban bureaucracy, policy analysis, and intergovernmental relations also makes it an effective textbook for classes in urban administration and planning.

Support material for this book can be found at: www.routledge.com/9781032270654

By: Myron A. Levine (Wright State University USA), Heywood T. Sanders (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 11th edition
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 990g
ISBN: 9781032270654
ISBN 10: 1032270659
Pages: 506
Publication Date: 30 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1.The Urban Situation: Global City, Tourist City, City Left Behind, Growing Tech City 2. The Evolution of Cities and Suburbs 3. A Suburban Nation 4. Recent Trends: Gentrification, Concentrated Poverty, and Globalization 5. Who Has the Power? Decision Making and Economic Development in Cities and Suburbs 6. Formal Powers, the Structure of Local Government, and Leadership 7. The Rules of Local Politics and Elections: The Reform and Post-Reform City 8. Citizen Participation 9. Improving Urban Services 10. Regional Cooperation and Governance in a Global Age 11. The Intergovernmental City: National and State Urban Policy 12. The Future of Urban America

Myron A. Levine is Professor Emeritus in the Urban Affairs, Political Science, and Public Administration programs in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at Wright State University, USA. His writings have appeared in Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and various other urban studies and political science journals. He is the editor of Taking Sides: Urban Affairs and of a number of volumes in the Annual Editions: Urban Society series. He has received Fulbright Foundation fellowships to study and teach in the Netherlands, Germany, Latvia, and the Slovak Republic, as well as an NEH award to study in France. Heywood T. Sanders is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His previous works include Convention Center Follies (2015), Urban Texas: Politics and Development (co-edited with Char Miller, 2000), and The Politics of Urban Development (co-edited with Clarence N. Stone, 1987). He has also published articles in Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and Economic Development Quarterly. The Brookings Institution published his Space Available: The Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy in 2005.

Reviews for Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age

“Urban Politics is an exceptionally well-researched handbook for progressive policy activists in the public and private sectors. Its value is in the depth of analysis, both positive and negative, into the factors affecting the future of urban America. The focus on power and its use historically provides a portal into the future for academics and all concerned about urban America. Its style and structure make Urban Politics an effective textbook for classroom use.” Minchin Lewis, Syracuse University, USA