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<p><b>A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political development</b><br><br>Ideas, interests, and institutions are the "holy trinity" of the study of politics. Of the three, ideas are arguably the hardest with which to grapple and, despite a generally broad agreement concerning their fundamental importance, the most often neglected. Nowhere is this more evident than in the study of urban politics and urban political development.<br><br>The essays in <i>How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development</i> argue that ideas have been the real drivers behind urban political development and offer as evidence national and international examples&mdash;some unique to specific cities, regions, and countries, and some of global impact. Within the United States, contributors examine the idea of "blight" and how it became a powerful metaphor in city planning; the identification of racially-defined spaces, especially black cities and city neighborhoods, as specific targets of neoliberal disciplinary practices; the paradox of members of Congress who were active supporters of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s but enjoyed the support

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Author

Richardson Dilworth; Timothy P. R. Weaver

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812297171

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Sociology, Social Science