Cornell University Press
The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism
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- Jason Hackworth
- Cornell University Press
- Paperback
- 9780801473036
- 8.9 X 6 X 0.6 inches
- 0.7 pounds
- Social Science > Sociology - Urban
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
The shift in the ideological winds toward a free-market economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term neoliberalism was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world institutions like the IMF and World Bank impose on third-world countries and cities. The support of unimpeded trade and individual freedoms and the discouragement of state regulation and social spending are the putative centerpieces of this vision. More and more, though, people have come to recognize that first-world cities are undergoing the same processes.
In The Neoliberal City, Jason Hackworth argues that neoliberal policies are in fact having a profound effect on the nature and direction of urbanization in the United States and other wealthy countries, and that much can be learned from studying its effect. He explores the impact that neoliberalism has had on three aspects of urbanization in the United States: governance, urban form, and social movements. The American inner city is seen as a crucial battle zone for the wider neoliberal transition primarily because it embodies neoliberalism's antithesis, Keynesian egalitarian liberalism.
Focusing on issues such as gentrification in New York City; public-housing policy in New York, Chicago, and Seattle; downtown redevelopment in Phoenix; and urban-landscape change in New Brunswick, N.J., Hackworth shows us how material and symbolic changes to institutions, neighborhoods, and entire urban regions can be traced in part to the rise of neoliberalism.
Author Bio
Jason Hackworth is professor in Geography & Planning Department of University of Toronto. His research interests include urban political economy, comparative urban policy, and ethno-racial conflict.
He has also authored . Faith Based: Religious neoliberalism and the politics of welfare in the United States published by University of Georgia Press and The Neoliberal City: Governance, ideology and development in American urbanism published by Cornell University Press.
Education
PhD Rutgers University (2000)
MA Arizona State University (1996)
MEP (Planning) Arizona State University (1996)
BA (Sociology) University of Cincinnati (1993)
Source: University of Toronto
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