Comparative civic culture the role of local culture in urban policy-making /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Reese, Laura A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10529451
Table of Contents:
  • Comparative civic culture: theory and methods
  • Categorizing civic cultures: testing a typology of local civic culture
  • Inclusive/bureaucratic cities: Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Vancouver
  • Partnerships in Pittsburgh: civic cultures and organizational capacities
  • Civic culture in Ottawa: the endurance of local culture
  • Vancouver: the sustainable city
  • Market-active and passive cities: Charlotte, Calgary, Cleveland, Louisville
  • Civic culture and corporate regime in Louisville
  • A perpetual crisis: Cleveland's unfinished, changing, and incomplete civic agenda
  • Civic culture as a policy premise: appraising Charlotte's civic culture
  • Civic culture in Calgary: the oil and developers' land
  • Individualistic cities: Dallas and Miami
  • A tale of two cities: civic culture and public policy in Miami
  • The civic culture of Dallas, Texas
  • Conclusion: a theory of local civic culture.