Urban Innovation
Creative Strategies for Turbulent Times

Edited by:

Terry Nichols Clark - University of Chicago, USA, Southern Illinois University, USA

Volume: 3

Other Titles in:
Planning (General)

July 1994 | 288 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Description
Contents

How do cities innovate in the face of fiscal austerity? Based on survey data from the Fiscal Austerity and Innovation Project this book reassesses theories of political leadership and government decisionmaking, exploring how various cities have made innovations over the past decade and reviewing 33 specific strategies. The turbulence of the past two decades is critical in reshaping our ways of thinking about how governments work.

Terry Nichols Clark

Introduction: Turbulence and Innovation in Urban America

PART ONE: OLD CLEAVAGES AND NEW LEADERS

Terry Nichols Clark

Race and Class versus the New Political Culture

Rowan A Miranda

Containing Cleavages

Parties and Other Hierarchies

PART TWO: MAKING FUNDAMENTAL POLICY CHOICES

Terry Nichols Clark and Edward G Goetz

The Antigrowth Machine

Can City Government Control, Limit or Manage Growth

Rowan A Miranda and Norman Walzer

Growth and Decline of City Government

PART THREE: COPING IN LEAN YEARS II:

MAKING FUNDAMENTAL POLICY CHANGES

Cal Clark and Oliver Walter

Cuts, Cultures, and City Limits in Reagan's New Federalism

Rowan A Miranda

Contracting Out

A Solution with Limits

Terry Nichols Clark

Innovations That Work

A Menu of Strategies

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