Fractured Cities

`The range and depth of new developments he explores will surprise the expert and instruct the beginner ... Local governments are privatizing and trimming national state agencies, creating competitive service providers, involving citizens in service delivery specifics, and trying high tech tools. Jacobs provides a road map to all this and more.' - Political Studies` ... this is a stimulating book, and will have served its purpose admirably if it manages to introduce a broader, theoretically inquisitive, audience .' - Environment and Planning A`A comprehensive introduction to urban politics in the United States and Britain which both surveys recent developments and explains the theoretical and political significance of these changes ... an important contribution to recent urban political economy.' - Desmond S. King, St John's College, Oxford.

• Preface Introduction 1. Perspectives 2. The Role of the State 3. Urban America: High Technology and Poverty 4. Urban Britain: Enterprise and Underclass 5. Local Government and Urban Policy in the United States 6. Local Government and Urban Policy in Britain 7. Incorporating Community Politics 8. Minorities: Empowerment and Dissent 9. Corporate Visions 10. Initiatives Beyond Charity 11. Whither the City