Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America

Book Overview

Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems

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, Neoliberal Cities provides the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479832375
• ISBN13: 9781479832378
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"