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David Imbroscio - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Perils of Rationalism in American Urban Policy
Urban Affairs Review, 2017Co-Authors: David ImbroscioAbstract:A strong and enduring commitment to liberalism marks much of Urban Policy discourse in the United States. Although this Liberal Urban Policy compares favorably with its neoliberal and neoconservati...
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Urban Policy AS MERITOCRACY: A CRITIQUE
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2016Co-Authors: David ImbroscioAbstract:Much of American Urban Policy focuses—appropriately—on the tragic conundrum of why the disadvantaged in cities remain so. Scholars and researchers writing from a politically liberal perspective hea...
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from redistribution to ownership toward an alternative Urban Policy for america s cities
Urban Affairs Review, 2013Co-Authors: David ImbroscioAbstract:Equity is a crucial goal of American Urban Policy. The means by which it is pursued via the liberal approach to Urban Policy—augmented redistribution— is problematic, however. What is needed, therefore, is an alternative means to advance equity. Broadening ownership (of productive assets) can be the basis of such an alternative. I discuss how the liberal approach to American Urban Policy can be transcended by supplanting its Redistributive Paradigm with an Ownership Paradigm.
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BEYOND MOBILITY:THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL Urban Policy
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2012Co-Authors: David ImbroscioAbstract:ABSTRACT:Liberalism remains the dominant philosophical perspective underlying the development of Urban public Policy in the United States. At the heart of Liberal Urban Policy lies a Mobility Parad...
Udesh Pillay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Urban Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Context, Evolution and Future Directions
Urban Forum, 2008Co-Authors: Udesh PillayAbstract:Against a backdrop of definitions and conceptual clarifications of the term Urban Policy, including its expression in the developing world—and Africa, in particular—this paper reviews the trajectory of Urban Policy in South Africa post-1994 and comments on future directions and plausible scenarios. In a highly specific context-dependent analysis, the paper argues that, in the first 10 years of democracy, we have seen the creation of democratic, integrated development local government, mass delivery of housing and services, a finely crafted array of capital and operating subsidies for delivery to lowincome households, and a number of programmes intended to enhance the capacity of local government to undertake delivery. All of these have been centrally driven. The counterpoint to the national perspective and frameworks, the paper argues—and in evidence over the past 5 years, in particular—is the increasingly robust role and influence of cities in setting the Urban agenda and, in effect, leading Urban Policy. The paper concludes by examining the many points that contribute to this view.
Paul Burton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Urban Policy in the Time of Obama
Urban Policy and Research, 2019Co-Authors: Paul BurtonAbstract:As an undergraduate student of town and country planning in London in the second half of the 1970s, I occasionally demonstrated against what were seen at the time as the oppressive and reactionary Urban policies of the Callaghan Labour government, little knowing that these would soon be as nothing compared to the systematic and sustained assault on the poor, the working class and the institutions of local democracy initiated by the Thatcher government and its successors, both Labour and Conservative. Which just goes to show that things can sometimes get worse, no matter how bad they might seem at the time. For example, the election of Donald Trump and his inauguration as the 45th President of the United States of America on 20 January 2017 marked the end of the “Time of Obama”. One year earlier, a collection of sixteen essays (plus an introduction, conclusion and afterword) on national Urban Policy in the U.S.A., edited by James DeFilipis, was published because, as he puts it in his introduction, “The past eight years should have been a remarkable time for American Urban Policy” (p. 1, emphasis added), but “There has been nothing in the Obama administration’s Urban Policy to stir the blood” (p. 8). We can only imagine how the disappointments expressed by this collection of scholars and analysts have broadened and deepened in the years since the book’s publication. In 2013, when most of the contributors came together at sessions of the Urban Affairs Association in San Francisco, Donald Trump’s political ambitions were neither clear nor treated with any seriousness. But, the ensuing book is very good at tracing the history of “national Urban Policy” initiatives in the U.S.A.
Tom Baker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Urban Policy Mobilities Research: Introduction to a Debate
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015Co-Authors: Tom Baker, Cristina TemenosAbstract:type="main"> An increasing number of scholars are focusing attention on the circulation of Urban policies and the concept of ‘Policy mobilities’. This collection of short commentaries identifies emerging areas of interest and contention for Urban Policy mobilities researchers. Exploring issues from conceptual dualisms and topological thinking to interdisciplinarity and slow methodologies, the commentaries offer refinements and suggest new pathways for Urban Policy mobilities research in the future.
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Enriching Urban Policy Mobilities Research
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015Co-Authors: Cristina Temenos, Tom BakerAbstract:type="main"> Attending to the recent and growing debates on Urban Policy mobilities, this commentary offers a view towards an intellectual and methodological reflexiveness for Urban Policy mobilities researchers. We consider connections between the various approaches and considerations that researchers have argued for in regards to doing Policy mobilities research. In doing so, we argue that new pathways for research can be usefully carved out through attention to embodiment, or a peopling of the geographies of Policy mobilities.
Cristina Temenos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Urban Policy Mobilities Research: Introduction to a Debate
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015Co-Authors: Tom Baker, Cristina TemenosAbstract:type="main"> An increasing number of scholars are focusing attention on the circulation of Urban policies and the concept of ‘Policy mobilities’. This collection of short commentaries identifies emerging areas of interest and contention for Urban Policy mobilities researchers. Exploring issues from conceptual dualisms and topological thinking to interdisciplinarity and slow methodologies, the commentaries offer refinements and suggest new pathways for Urban Policy mobilities research in the future.
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Enriching Urban Policy Mobilities Research
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2015Co-Authors: Cristina Temenos, Tom BakerAbstract:type="main"> Attending to the recent and growing debates on Urban Policy mobilities, this commentary offers a view towards an intellectual and methodological reflexiveness for Urban Policy mobilities researchers. We consider connections between the various approaches and considerations that researchers have argued for in regards to doing Policy mobilities research. In doing so, we argue that new pathways for research can be usefully carved out through attention to embodiment, or a peopling of the geographies of Policy mobilities.
