This book arose from a course, Comparative Local Government and Urban Politics, which I
taught with Keith Dowding at the London School of Economics between 1997 and 2000 …

Urban regime theory came to prominence with the publication of Clarence Stone's study of
Atlanta in 1989, although earlier work by Fainstein and Fainstein (1983) and Elkin (1987) …

Much has been written about cities in the information age, most of it either positively
visionary or, conversely, apocalyptic in nature. In an echo of concerns raised by early …

There is evidence that the politics of economic development in the post‐industrial city is
increasingly bound up with the ability of urban elites to manage ecological impacts and …

This article uses social-movement theory to analyze how neighborhood organizations
portray activism as grounded in a particular place and scale. I apply the concept of collective …

Spatial planning, strongly advocated by government and the profession, is intended to be
more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to …

This article develops an integrated framework for comparing urban governance cross
nationally. Joining together structural, cultural, and rational actor approaches to cross …

Focusing on recent regional policy and important planning debates across the English
regions, this book analyzes the issues, disputes and tensions that have arisen in regional …

In recent years, Atlanta appears unable to move from diffuse problem recognition to the
framing of a broad program of action, despite major problems associated with a high level of …

The study of urban regimes is an evolving activity and not a tightly defined form of analysis.
With ongoing research new questions and issues arise, and old ones stand in need of …