{"product_id":"neoliberal-cities-the-remaking-of-postwar-urban-america-hardback-9781479828821","title":"Neoliberal Cities; The Remaking of Postwar Urban America (Hardback) 9781479828821","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNeoliberal Cities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Remaking of Postwar Urban America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew J. Diamond (Edited by), Thomas J. Sugrue (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479828821\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 September 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A necessary intervention. The book poses questions about the concept of neoliberalism that will resonate well beyond the field of history, provoking discussion in urban studies and geography, as well as the social sciences.\" - Caitlin Zaloom, author of \u003ci\u003eIndebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost\u003c\/i\u003e \"As one who has found little interpretive value in neoliberalism as a term, I am deeply persuaded by the indispensability of this book. \u003ci\u003eNeoliberal Cities\u003c\/i\u003e reminds historians of the importance of sharp conceptual language. It shows how sound historical research can often vex lazy deployments of one of our moment's most weighted analytic terms. This is the kind of book one thinks with and grows smarter.\" - N. D. B. Connolly, author of \u003ci\u003eA World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida\u003c\/i\u003e \"The authors in this collection reveal the long, contentious, and often ironic history of neoliberalism's ascendance, rooted in local struggles with broad implications for our lives today and for the world we want to build for tomorrow.\" - Andrew W. Kahrl, University of Virginia \"A timely and welcome appeal to urban historians to take neoliberalism seriously as an analytical category whose history demands to be written\" (History News Network) \"This collection from urban historians Sugrue and Diamond invites readers to explore the legacy of neoliberalism associated with initiatives embraced by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The principal arguments put forward focus on the conscious role played by urban planners, financiers, and municipal and state governments to retreat from a sense of public space and benefits.\" (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable housing, criminal justice, and education. Through richly told case studies from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York, \u003ci\u003eNeoliberal Cities \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the necessary context to understand the always intensifying racial and economic inequality in and around the city center. \u003cbr\u003e In this original collection of essays, urban historians and sociologists trace the role that public policies have played in reshaping cities, with particular attention to labor, the privatization of public services, the collapse of welfare, the rise of gentrification, the expansion of the carceral state, and the politics of community control. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eNeoliberal Cities \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a bottom-up approach to social scientific, theoretical, and historical accounts of urban America, exploring the ways that activists and grassroots organizations, as well as ordinary citizens, came to terms with new market-oriented public policies promoted by multinational corporations, financial institutions, and political parties.\u003ci\u003e Neoliberal Cities \u003c\/i\u003eoffers new scaffolding for urban and metropolitan change, with attention to the interaction between policymaking, city planning, social movements, and the market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591098528024,"sku":"9781479828821","price":54.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/neoliberal-cities-the-remaking-of-postwar-urban-america-hardback-9781479828821","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}