Overview

Cities 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. Global Urban Policy suggests that to understand contemporary societal transformation—and political and policy processes more generally—we need to study the policies that cities create and implement. Going beyond thinking of “urban” as a physical site, the authors show that an urban mode of life is one marked by diversity, complexity, chaos, flexibility, and ongoing change. With eleven empirical case studies, the authors examine issues including housing and urban development, migration, climate change, and crime in cities as varied as Berlin, Medellín, Chicago, Accra, Guangzhou, São Paulo, Mumbai, and Saint Etienne. The studies show how contemporary confrontations between public and private property, power and justice, participation and exclusion, wealth and poverty, and emerging technology and existing economic, social, and political structures take physical form in cities. Global Urban Policy engages with theoretical developments in public policy, urban politics, and urban studies to develop and demonstrate a framework for urban policy analysis.

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Author:   David Kaufmann ,  Mara Sidney
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780472058020

ISBN 10:   0472058029
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   31 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Editors and authors Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: A New Framework for the Analysis of Urban Policy David Kaufmann, Mara Sidney Part I: What state(s)? The Role and Scale of State Actions in Urban Policy Chapter 2: Contentious Governance and the City: How Urban Alliances Contest National Authority over Climate and Migration Policy Raffaele Bazurli, Imrat Verhoeven Chapter 3: The Politics of Implementation in São Paulo: Why Low-Income Housing Policies and Programs So Often Remain Promises Rather than Reality Maureen Donaghy Chapter 4: The Redevelopment of Informal Settlements in China and India: Two Models of Urban Governance Compared Yue Zhang Chapter 5: Digital Underdogs: Postindustrial Policymaking and the ‘Ordinary’ City Allison Bramwell Chapter 6: Risk, Capital Accumulation, and Racial Inequality in Detroit: Exploring the Calculus of Emergency Managers during Times of Crisis Meghan Wilson Chapter 7: Policies In and of the Urban Everyday Ross Beveridge, Philippe Koch Part II: Who Participates? Diverse and Shifting Actors in Urban Policy Chapter 8: City-Making in Africa’s Urban Estuaries: Rescaling African Urban Policy Analysis in Era of Mobility Loren Landau, Kabiri Bule Chapter 9: We Have Always Been Here: Urban Resistance Testimonios and Immigrant Women in the Housing Justice Movement Diane Wong Chapter 10: Private Interests, Public Institutions: Large-Scale Urban Development in Berlin and Chicago Annika Hinze, James Smith Chapter 11: Urban Security Politics and Everyday Resistance to Criminal Victimization: Evidence from Medellín Eduardo Moncada Chapter 12: Housing policies, Claim-Making, and Resistance in African Cities Jeff Paller Conclusion Chapter 13: Constituting Elements of an Urban Policy Analysis David Kaufmann, Mara Sidney

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David Kaufmann is Assistant Professor of Spatial Development and Urban Policy at ETH Zürich. Mara Sidney is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–Newark and Director of the Global Urban Studies PhD program.

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