Cities in Recession: Critical Responses to the Urban Policies of the New Right

Abstract

PART ONE: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE NEW RIGHT - Ivan Szelenyi Introduction: Urban Policies of the New Right -- Critical Responses The New Class War in the United States - Frances Fox Piven and Richard A Cloward Business Rationality and Barriers to Recapitalization - Donald Tomaskovic-Devy and S M Miller PART TWO: LEFT RESPONSES TO THE DECLINE OF PUBLIC HOUSING, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN JOBS The Decollectivization of Consumption - Michael Harloe and Chris Paris Housing and Local Government Finance in England and Wales, 1979-1981 Urban Transportation for Whom? Determinants and Consequences of Transit Change in the United States and Germany - Glenn Yago Transnational Capitalism and Urban Crisis - Richard Child Hill The Case of the Auto Industry and Detroit PART THREE: LEFT RESPONSES TO THE POLICIES OF URBAN AUSTERITY The Social Democratic State in a Radical Region - Philip Cooke and Gareth Rees Development Agencies, Industrial Change and Class Relations in South Wales Austerity and the Politics of Resistance - Brian Elliott and David McCrone The Working Class and the State - Jean Lojkine The French Experience in Socialist and Communist Municipalities The Turn to the Left among Italian Cities and Urban Public Policy - Michael Aiken and Guido Martinotti PART FOUR: A THIRD PARADIGM FOR URBAN SOCIOLOGY American Urban Theories and Urban Areas - Herbert J Gans Some Observations on Contemporary Ecological and Marxist Paradigms