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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- The Last Urban Frontier -- Part -- Solitude -- Framing the Empty -- Urban Places/Empty Spaces -- Go Away Closer -- A Crucible for Populist Resistance -- Part -- The Sagebrush Empire -- The Fragile Desert -- Cheatgrass Empire -- The Solace of Empty Spaces -- Part -- The Cities on the Rim -- Constructing the "Quality of Life" City -- The Persistent Possibility of Failure -- Errant into the Wilderness -- Cowboys and Clerics -- The Coming Convergence -- Contributors -- Index.

The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of twentieth-century urban development are relevant for studying the twenty-first-century metropolis

The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of twentieth-century urban development are relevant for studying the twenty-first-century metropolis.

Historically, land use had been an exclusively local function. By the early 1960s, a "quiet revolution" broke the local government monopoly over zoning and land use, with a larger state role. Those states which passed land use legislation soon were faced with substantial political opposition, especially from rural dwellers and developers. When Congress considered national land use legislation in the early 1970s. these same interests united in effective opposition.

Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Shadow Governments and the Remaking of the American Local State -- Part I: The Eclipse of the Municipal State -- Chapter 1. Institutions, Interests, and the Local State -- Chapter 2. Multiple-Function Special Districts as Substitutes for Municipalities -- Chapter 3. The Withering of the Municipal State -- Part II: The Evolving Role of Public-Private Authorities -- Chapter 4. From the Old to the New Politics of Governance and Development -- Chapter 5. Privatization Schemes and the Case of Water -- Chapter 6. Lessons from Great Britain -- Part III: The Fiscal Politics of the New American Local State -- Chapter 7. A Look at Special Assessments -- Chapter 8. Financing Public Facilities in an Age of Austerity -- Part IV: Bringing the Public State Back In -- Chapter 9. Building the Public City, Privately -- Conclusion: The Fate of the Public Realm -- Contributors -- Index.

"Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today's metropolitan regions"--

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism.Brings urban tourism into focus as an important political, economic and cultural phenomenon.Presents original essays written by established scholars, including studies of Venice, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Australia's Gold Coast