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The Politics of Downtown Development : Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
American cities experienced an extraordinary surge in downtown development during the 1970s and 1980s. Pro-growth advocates in urban government and the business community believed that the construction of office buildings, hotels, convention centers, and sports complexes would generate jobs and tax...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Maps; Preface; Part 1: Introduction; 1. Interpreting Downtown Development; The Conventional Interpretation; An Alternative Interpretation; The Constitutive Impact of the Local Political Culture; 2. Political Culture and Political Change; The Silent Revolution; Gramsci's Theory of Cultural Hegemony/Counterhegemony; The Mechanics of Cultural/Political Change; The Content of Political Cultures; A Model of Transformative Politics; 3. The Empirical Framework; Case Selection.
- An Ethnography of Cultural/Political ChangeConclusion; Part 2: San Francisco; 4. The Hegemony of Privatism (1); Downtown Development; The Privatist Political Culture; The Emergence of Grassroots Opposition; The Building Boom Continues; The Origins of Progressive Activism; Conclusion; 5. Progressive Activism: Expanding the Public Sphere; The 1979 Citizens Initiative Campaign; Linkage as a Counterhegemonic Device; Institutionalizing Linkage; The Backlash; The 1983 Citizens Initiative Campaign; Conclusion; 6. Progressive Activism: Promoting Popular Empowerment; The Litigation Campaign.
- Citizen PlanningCitizen Planning and the Case of Chinatown; The Downtown Plan; The 1986 Citizens Initiative Campaign; Conclusion; 7. Cultural Change; The General Public; The African American Community; City Planners; The Downtown Business Community; Conclusion; 8. Political Change; Development Politics after Proposition M; Development Politics in the 1990s; Populist Mayor/Progressive Politics; Conclusion; Part 3: Washington, D.C.; 9. The Hegemony of Privatism (2); Early Development of the Federal City; The Downtown Building Boom; Evaluating Downtown Development; Conclusion.
- 10. Managerial ActivismThe Promise of Planning; Taking Stock of Planning Advocacy; The Cultural Ramifications of Managerial Activism; Conclusion; 11. Populist Activism; Rumblings of Discontent; Linkage in Washington; The Cultural Ramifications of Populist Activism; Friction within the Growth-Control Movement; The Emergence of Counterhegemonic Activism?; Part 4: Conclusion; 12. Counterhegemonic Activism in American Cities; Political Culture as a Catalyst for Political Change; Replicating the San Francisco Experience?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.