Remaking New York : primitive globalization and the politics of urban community /

Remaking New York : primitive globalization and the politics of urban community /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sites, William.
Imprint:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource ( xxvi, 260 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Globalization and community ; v. 12 Globalization and community ; v. 12.
Subject:	City planning -- New York (State) -- New York. Community development -- New York (State) -- New York. Community organization -- New York (State) -- New York. Political participation -- New York (State) -- New York. Municipal government -- New York (State) -- New York. Globalization. City planning. Community development. Community organization. Economic history. Economic policy. Globalization. Municipal government. Political participation. Politics and government. Social conditions. New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government. New York (N.Y.) -- Economic policy. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Lower East Side.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12560779

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ISBN:	9780816641567 0816641560 9780816694839 0816694834 0816641552 9780816641550
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Notes:	Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--New York University). Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Sites, William. Remaking New York. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003 0816641552 9780816641550

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Summary:	<p> Uses New York City to discuss the ways that policy has mismanaged the effects of globalization </p> <p>Inequality increases, instability grows, communities fragment: this is the fate of a city in the wake of globalization--but is globalization really the cause? Proposing a new perspective on politics, globalization, and the city, this provocative book argues that such urban problems result in part from U.S. policies that can be changed.</p> William Sites develops the concept of primitive globalization, identifying a pattern of reactive politics--ad hoc measures to subsidize business, displace the urban poor, and dismantle the welfare state--that uproots social actors (corporations, citizens, urban residents) and facilitates a damaging, short-term-oriented type of international integration. In light of this theory, Sites examines the transformation of New York City since the 1970s, focusing on the logic of political action at national, local, and neighborhood levels. In the process, the story of late twentieth-century New York and its Lower East Side community emerges as something different: not a tale of globalist transformation or of local resurgence but a distinctly American case, one in which urban politics and the state, in their own right, exacerbate inequality and community fragmentation within the city.
Item Description:	Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--New York University).
Physical Description:	1 online resource ( xxvi, 260 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780816641567 0816641560 9780816694839 0816694834 0816641552 9780816641550