City politics is an ancient, enduring and vibrant enterprise that can be traced back over two millennia. Its key concerns include the nature of power, institutions, governance, community, scale and economic processes, as well as the urban citizenry itself and the public policy efforts to address their problems. The study of these concerns is inherently interdisciplinary, as local political processes are shaped by social forces, spatial dynamics and economic factors. Volume One: Traditions and Transitions examines different ways in which the politics of city life have been conceived down the ages. Volume Two: Political Economy and Power brings together theoretical work developed to explain urban politics, focusing on the key interactions between economic and political processes and the distribution and nature of political power. Volume Three: Institutions and Governance focuses on the formal and informal institutions of urban government and the task of urban governance. Volume Four: Publics and Policies covers a range of topics in urban politics related to its various publics and related problems and policies.
VOLUME 1: TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS The Polis - Humphrey Kitto The Early Polis as City and State - Ian Morris Extract from Politics - Aristotle Democratic Politics in Republican Rome - John North Extracts from The City of God against the Pagans - Augustine Subsidiarity, Federalism and the Best Constitution: Thomas Aquinas on city, province and empire - Nicholas Aroney The Emergence of an Urban Ideology at Florence, c. 1250-1450 - George Holmes The Great Towns - Frederick Engels The Paris Commune - Karl Marx The Arcades Project - Walter Benjamin Extracts from Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - William Riordan Latent Functions of the Machine - Robert Merton The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era - Samuel Hays Urban Renewal and Social Conflict - Manuel Castells From the City to Urban Society - Henri Lefebvre Introduction to Un-Heavenly City: The nature and future of our urban crisis - Edward Banfield The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety - Jane Jacobs VOLUME 2: POWER AND POLITICAL ECONOMY Extracts from Who Governs - Robert Dahl The Local Community as Ecology of Games - Norton Long The Structure of Power in Regional City - Floyd Hunter Two Faces of Power - Peter Bachrach and Morten Baratz The City as a Growth Machine - Harvey Molotch Re-defining Urban Politics for the 21st Century - Allan Cochrane From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The transformation in urban governance in late capitalism - David Harvey City Trenches: Urban politics and the patterning of class in the United States - Ira Katznelson Systemic Power in Community Decision Making: Restatement of stratification theory - Clarence Stone The Interests of the Limited City - Paul Peterson The Urban Basis of Political Alignment: Social class, domestic property ownership, and state intervention in consumption processes - Patrick Dunleavy Semi-Sovereign Cities: The politics of urban development - Todd Swanstrom The World City Hypothesis - John Friedmann Cities in Today's Global Age - Saskia Sassen Neoliberal Urbanism: Models, moments, mutations - Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis - Edward W. Soja VOLUME 3: INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE City, State and Market - Stephen Elkin Toward a Theory of Urban Development - H. V. Savitch and Paul Kantor Urban Regimes and the Capacity to Govern - Clarence Stone Urban Regimes and Growth Machines: Towards a cross-national research agenda - Alan Harding Governance as Theory: Five propositions - Gerry Stoker Rescuing Aunt Sally: Taking institutional theory seriously in urban politics - Vivien Lowndes Toward a Theory of Street-Level Bureaucracy - Michael Lipsky The Urban Bureaucracy Anne - Mette Kjaer Local Governance, the Crises of Fordism and the Changing Geographies of Regulation - Mark Goodwin and Joe Painter Understanding Recent Trends in Central-Local Relations: Centralisation in Great Britain and decentralisation in the United States - Harold Wolman Understanding Urban Governance: The contribution of rational choice - Keith Dowding et al Life-style Values and Political Decentralization in Metropolitan Areas - Olivier Williams Regionalisms: New and old - Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom Metropolitan Institutional Reform and the Rescaling of State Space in Contemporary Western Europe - Neil Brenner Deepening Democracy - Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright The Democratic Anchorage of Governance Networks - Eva Sorensen and Jacob Torfing The Limits of Partnership: An exit-action strategy for local democratic inclusion - Jonathan Davies VOLUME 4: PUBLICS AND POLICIES The Rise of the Creative Class - Richard Florida Planet of Slums - Mike Davis Class and Protest in Africa: New waves - David Seddon and Leo Zeilig The Black Urban Regime: Structural origins and constraints - A. Reed Jr. Universalism and Deconcentration: Why race still matters in poverty and economic development - J. Phillip Thompson, III The Prospects for Political Equality: Is protest enough? - R.P. Browning, D.R. Marshall and D.H. Tabb Gender and Sexuality - Judith Garber Neither Romance nor Regulation: Re-evaluating community - James DeFillipis, Robert Fisher and Eric Shragge Urban Social Movements in an Era of Globalization - Margit Mayer Pivatism and the Limits of Local Economic Development Policy - Timothy Barnekov and Daniel Rich The Politics of Local Economic Development - Harold Wolman with David Spitzley Concentrated Poverty and Metropolitan Equity Strategies - Scott Bollens Excavating the Logic of British Urban Policy: Neoliberalism as the "crisis of crisis management - Martin Jones and Kevin Ward Local Policy Responses to Globalization: Place-based ownership models of economic enterprise - David Imbroscio, Thad Williamson and Gar Alperowitz Sustainability and Infrastructure Planning in South Africa: A Cape Town case study - Mark Swilling Reinventing Urban Citizenship - Rainer Bauboeck City Life and Difference - Marion Young
