Cities under austerity: restructuring the US metropolis

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Situating Austerity Urbanism -- Austere Times/Remembering Reagan -- Renewing Normal/Anticipating Trump -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Introduction -- Austerity Defined -- Austerity Urbanism Produced, U.S.-Style -- The Chapters -- Chapter 2: Austerity and the Spectacle: Urban Triage and Post-Political Development in Detroit -- Urban Austerity, Publicly Financed Stadiums, and the Spectacle -- Urban Austerity -- The Publicly Funded Stadium -- The Urban Spectacle -- The Red Wings Arena and Entertainment District -- Public Costs -- Stadium Politics -- Urban Triage and the Downtown Spectacle -- Austerity and the Spectacle of Sport: Two Sides of the Same Urban Coin -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Austerity as the New Normal: The Fiscal Politics of Retrenchment in San Jose, California -- Introduction -- Background -- San Jose's Fiscal Crisis -- Service Cuts -- Revenue Options -- National Pension "Crisis" -- San Jose's Pension Crisis -- Conclusion: Studying the Post-Crisis City -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Difference a Crisis Makes: Environmental Demands and Disciplinary Governance in the Age of Austerity -- Introduction -- The Neoliberalization of the EPA in Two Acts -- CERCLA: Keynesianism's "Parting Shot" and Roll-Back/Roll-Out Neoliberalism -- The Neoliberalization of the Clean Water Act: Bait and Switch Neoliberalism -- EPA and Consent Decrees in the Age of Austerity -- Austerity Water Wars -- Regulatory Violence in Consent Decree Cities -- The Difference a Crisis Makes: A Tale of Two Consent Decree Cities -- Revenge of the Suburbs -- Discussion and Conclusion: Black Cities Matter -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Unaffordability of Recession: Housing Mobility and Recession Austerity in Providence, Rhode Island -- Introduction -- The Recession and Housing Affordability in Providence.

Acknowledgements -- Preface / Jamie Peck -- Introduction / Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward -- Austerity and the spectacle: urban triage and post-political development in Detroit / L Owen Kirkpatrick and Chalem Bolton -- Austerity as the new normal : the fiscal politics of retrenchment in San Jose, california / Sara Hinkley -- The difference a crisis makes : environmental demands and disciplinary governance in the age of austerity / Caroline Sage Ponder -- The unaffordability of recession : housing mobility & recession austerity in Providence, Rhode Island / Aaron Niznik -- Urban governance and inclusionary housing in New York City / Kathe Newman -- Homeownership in Middle America : a case of incidental austerity? / Dan Hammel and Xueying Chen -- Conclusion / Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward and Mark Davidson -- Post script / Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Endnotes