Governing the postindustrial city

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Author: Marcus D. Pohlmann. Power and City Governance examines the role of these forces, then evaluates urban development in Boston and Detroit and in the English cities Birmingham and Bristol.

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All city mayors encounter obstacles when serving as the heads of cities, but minority mayors are at times confronted with opposition because of. Marion Orr is the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University.

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Pohlmann examines the troubling issue of why Memphis city school students are underperforming at alarming rates. His provocative interdisciplinary analysis, combining both history and social science, examines the events before and after desegregation, compares a city school to an affluent suburban school to pinpoint imbalances, and offers 3/5(1).

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This makes the rise of Latino mayors in the past three decades a remarkable American story--one that explains. Latino Mayors: Political Change in the Postindustrial City. As recently as the early s, Latinos were almost totally excluded from city politics. This makes the rise of Latino mayors in the past three decades a remarkable American story—one that explains ethnic succession, changing urban demography, and political contexts.

Marcus Dale Pohlmann (born ) is an American political scientist, author, and research focuses primarily on American government and politics, specifically, African-American politics, urban politics, and political is an emeritus professor of political science at Rhodes College in Memphis, TennesseeAuthority control: GND:ISNI:.

The book “Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany’s Fastest-Shrinking city” by Felix Ringel offers a valuable and timely contribution to urban studies focusing on how urban communities relate to their future under conditions of shrinkage.

but also for policy-makers engaged in governing shrinking cities Author: Maria Gunko. The book argues that the emphasis on devolving authority to state governments was a response to the rise of Black political empowerment in American cities.

I show that as cities gained greater Black representation in city government, the likelihood of a. The primary focus of this book has been to compare postindustrial urban development politics in the United Kingdom and the United States.

The object of this analysis has been what we termed modes of governance, which embody the “who, how, and what” of governing large cities. Rate this book.

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it was ok avg rating — 2 ratings — published Want to Read /5. Latino Mayors: Political Change in the Postindustrial City Edited by Marion Orr and Domingo Morel With a Foreword by Luis Ricardo Fraga As recently as the early s, Latinos were almost totally excluded from city politics.

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Join the Initiative on Cities, the Latin American Studies program, the Center for Latin American Studies, and African American Studies program on Thursday, November 14th for a book talk with Marion Orr, the co-editor of Latino Mayors: Political Change in the Postindustrial City.

As recently as the early s, Latinos were almost totally excluded from city politics. Marcus D. Pohlmann is professor of political science at Rhodes College. He is the author of Governing the Postindustrial City; coauthor, with Michael P. Kirby, of Racial Politics at the Crossroads: Memphis Elects W.

Herenton; and editor of the six-volume African American Political Thought.5/5(1). Over the last five decades American cities have been transformed as profoundly and tumultuously as they were during the industrialrevolution. In contrast to that earlier era, this contemporary transformation has been stimulated and guided by governmental intervention.

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