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"The importance of the book stems from the fact that this is one of the rare volumes which attempts a concrete investigation of a local power structure in a major American city-in this case St. Louis. Too much pluralistic writing takes place at local levels, such as New Haven and Oberlin, while too many power concentration approaches take into account primarily national and even inter national factors, leaving out of their reckoning more immediate variables related to community organization that may explain the functioning of power in American life. —from the Foreword by IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ

Intro -- Contents -- The Urban Challenge -- 1. Planning for Prosperity -- 2. Nelson Rockefeller: America's Urbanist Governor -- Urban Planning and Redevelopment -- 3. State Urban Redevelopment Policy -- 4. State Capital Offi ce Complexes and Cities -- 5. The Challenge of Regional Planning -- Transportation -- 6. White-Collar Rail: Mass Transit and Urban Prosperity -- 7. State Government and the Metropolitan Highway Network -- Higher Education -- 8. The Metropolitan State University System -- 9. Unheralded Anchors: Center- City State Universities -- Metropolitan Housing -- 10. Housing Finance Agencies Rethink Subsidized Housing -- 11. The Sad Tale of Decentralized Subsidized Housing -- 12. States and the Limits of Fair Housing Laws -- 13. The Urban Consequences of Deinstitutionalization -- The Environment -- 14. Cities of Sludge: The Urban Water Crisis -- 15. Parks for City People -- 16. Regional Recreational Planning -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

AFSCME's Philadelphia Story provides the most comprehensive account of the early years of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which is one of the nation's largest and most politically powerful unions in the AFL-CIO. Author Francis Ryan details the emergence of the Quaker City's interracial union, charting its beginnings in the political patronage system of one of the nation's most notorious political machines to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Ryan provides new insight into the working class origins of African American political pow.

The involvement of urban and regional governments in transnational cooperative arrangements and policy networks has led to considerable debate regarding the political and theoretical implications. This paper examines networking and cooperation between urban areas and regions in the UK and France with a shared sea border. Such cross-border cooperation involving local authorities in Europe is a growing phenomenon and has certain implications for the analysis of local and urban politics. Three study areas are examined in detail: the Transmanche region involving Kent County Council and the French region Nord-Pas-de-Calais; the Transmanche Metropole which includes Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth and Poole in Britain and Caen, Rouen and Le Havre in France; the cooperative initiative between the English county of East Sussex and the French departements of Somme and Seine-Maritime. In all three case studies, the development of cooperation has been influenced by the availability of funds from the European Union Interreg programme which supports transfrontier networking. A number of political consequences of cross-border cooperation are identified. The implications of these policy initiatives for theories of urban politics are considered, including a discussion of the political and economic construction of competition and cooperation between cities and regions.