Global Urban Policy by David Kaufmann, Mara Sidney - 9780472058020

Global Urban PolicyA Framework for Analyzing State and Society\nAuthor(s): David Kaufmann, Mara Sidney\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472058020, 978-0472058020\nSynopsis\nCities are active policy innovators of global importance, whether responding to climate change, migration, poverty, or health disparities, or aiming to generate growth. Since cities adapt to the needs and interests of global capital, they may implement policies that slight the well-being of everyday residents and the most vulnerable. How cities choose to contribute to a democratic and sustainable future reveals dimensions of political life playing out in society at large.\n\nGlobal Urban Policy suggests that to understand contemporary societal transformationand political and policy processes more generallywe need to study the policies that cities create and implement. Going beyond thinking of urban as a physical .