The City as a Place of Opportunity: The Changing Urban Political Economy

2015 ◽  
pp. 168-200
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Urban Political Economy ◽  
The City

Review Article: North Urban Political Economy, Urban Theory and British Research

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN HARDING
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
City Government ◽  
Growth Machine ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
Urban Political Economy ◽  
Urban Regimes ◽  
The Us ◽  
The City

In 1976, when European debates within urban theory were dominated by neo-Marxist and neo-Weberian approaches to cities as sites for the provision of social and welfare services, the very different notion of ‘the city as growth machine’ slipped into the US urban studies lexicon with the publication of Harvey Molotch's article of the same name. In 1983, the year in which Castells brought the radical phase of European urban studies to a halt with a famous warning against ‘the useless construction of abstract grand theory’, the concept of an urban regime had a similarly unobtrusive birth when the phrase was used by Fainstein and Fainstein to describe ‘the circle of powerful elected officials and top administrators’ in US city government. Had the story ended there it is unlikely that the world – especially outside North America – would have heard much more of urban regimes and growth machines. As it has turned out, though, from the late 1980s onwards urban scholars have hardly seemed able to hear enough about these two approaches within US urban political economy.

Circular economy and the city: an urban political economy agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kębłowski ◽  
Deborah Lambert ◽  
David Bassens
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Urban Political Economy ◽  
The City

Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles

Public ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (63) ◽  
pp. 134-135
Author(s):  
Andrew Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Urban Political Economy ◽  
Atmospheric Noise ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecology And Environment ◽  
The City

This article reviews Mariana Peterson’s Atmospheric Noise, which draws jarring, cacophonous resonances between the science and engineering of acoustics, urban political economy, governmentality, the metaphysics of sound and the social construction of ecology and environment in the city of Los Angeles.

Z pragmatyki działalności instruktorów szkolenia ideologicznego nauczycieli u schyłku okresu stalinowskiego na przykładzie miasta Tarnowa i powiatu tarnowskiego

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Paweł Juśko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Teachers Union ◽  
Socialist State ◽  
Important Link ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
The City ◽  
New Curricula

The article concerns the organization of mass ideological training of teachers in People's Poland in the years 1949-1956. It includes a section related to the activity of poviat ideological training instructors of teachers who were an extremely important link in this process, carried out by the Polish Teachers' Union. The study focuses on the practical side of their activity, consisting primarily in the organization, management and supervision of the work of ideological training teams in schools. This topic is presented based on the example of the activities of the instructors of the city of Tarnów and the Tarnów poviat, at the end of the Stalinist period in the Polish People's Republic. The aim of mass ideological training was to indoctrinate the teaching community so that teachers were ready to implement new curricula, became familiar with the new terminology of philosophy, sociology and political economy, as well as pedagogical sciences based on Marxism-Leninism. Thus, they were to contribute to building a socialist state, in line with the expectations of the communist party.

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