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Blazing the neoliberal trail : urban political development in the United States and the United Kingdom /

In Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, Timothy Weaver asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. He argues that politicians such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher targeted urban areas as part of their far broader effort to rem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weaver, Timothy P. R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction
  • The neoliberalization of national urban policy. Losing the battle but winning the war : the story of the Federal Enterprise Zone program that never was : 1980-1992 ; Dealing with those inner cities : the neoliberal turn in British urban policy ; Blair and Clinton : a third way?
  • Neoliberalism in the trenches : urban politics in Philadelphia and London. Neoliberalism in the trenches : Philadelphia 1951-1991 ; "America's mayor" comes to power in Philadelphia : the consolidation of the corporate city under Ed Rendell ; Neoliberalism by design : poverty and plenty in London's docklands
  • Conclusion. The neoliberal persuasion.