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Frameworks of Urban Governance posted by duggu on 2/6/2008

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Urban governance comprises the various forces, institutions, and movements that guide economic and physical development, the distribution of resources, social interactions, and other aspects of daily life in urban areas. This course examines governance from legal, political, social, and economic perspectives. In addition, we will discuss how these structures constrain collective decision making about particular urban issues (immigration, education…). Assignments will be nightly readings and a short paper relating an urban issue to the frameworks outlined in the class.

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SES #	TOPICS
1	Legal
2	Political
3	Social
4	Economic

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SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Legal	Frug, Gerald. "The City as a Legal Concept." Harvard Law Review 93, no. 6 (1980): 1059-1060 and 1095-1120. Barron, David. "A Localist Critique of the New Federalism." Duke Law Journal 51, no. 377 (2001): 390-397. Briffault, Richard. "Our Localism: Part I - The Structure of Local Government Law." Columbia Law Review 90, no. 1 (1990): 1-6. Ford, Richard. "Law's Territory: A History of Jurisdiction." Michigan Law Review 97, no. 843 (1999): 858-861 and 913-928.
2	Political	Peterson, Paul. "Who Should Do What? Divided Responsibility in the Federal System." The Brookings Review 13, no. 2 (1995): 6-11. Bridges, Amy. Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 12-17 and 207-222. ISBN: 0691010099. Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York, NY: Vintage Press, 1975, pp. 71-76, 172-176, and 15-20. ISBN: 0394720245. Cohen, Cathy, and Michael Dawson. "Neighborhood Poverty and African American Politics." American Political Science Review 87, no. 2 (1993): 286-302. Lewis, Paul. Shaping Suburbia. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996, pp. 208-225. ISBN: 0822955954. Dreier, Peter, et al. Place Matters. Wichita, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005, pp. 218-226, 251-254, and 257-260. ISBN: 0700613641.
3	Social	Wirth, Louis. "Urbanism as a Way of Life." The American Journal of Sociology 44, no. 1 (1938): 1-24. Young, Iris. Inclusion and Democracy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 133-141. ISBN: 0198297556. Harris, Fredrick. "Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism." Journal of Politics 56, no. 1 (1994): 42-68. Della Porta, Donatella, and Mario Diani. Social Movements: An Introduction. Boston, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp. 89-98, 145-150, and 188-191. ISBN: 1405102829.
4	Economic	Harvey, David. "From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism." Geografiska Annaler 71, series B (1989): 3-17. Logan, John, and Harvey Molotch. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988, pp. 1-4 and 32-39. ISBN: 0520063414. Savitch, H. V., and Paul Kantor. Cities in the International Marketplace. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 29-54. ISBN: 0691120145. Shefter, Martin. Political Crisis, Fiscal Crisis. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1987, pp. 219-235. ISBN: 0231079435. Sellers, Jeffrey. Governing from Below. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 178-190. ISBN: 0521651530.