Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic Turmoil (The Urban Agenda) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252038207 ISBN 13: 9780252038204

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2013

Synopsis

Cities, counties, school districts and other local governments have suffered a long-lasting period of fiscal challenges since the beginning of the Great Recession. Metropolitan governments continue to adjust to the "new normal" of sharply lower property values, consumer sales, and personal income. Contributors to this volume include elected officials, academics, key people in city administrations, and other nationally recognized experts who discuss solutions to the urban problems created by the Great Recession.

Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic Turmoil looks at the capacity of local governments to mobilize resources efficiently and effectively, as well as the overall effects of the long-term economic downturn on quality of life. Introducing the reader to the fiscal effects of the Great Recession on cities, the book examines the initial fraying and subsequent mending of the social safety net, the opportunities for pursuing economic development strategies, the challenges of inter-jurisdictional cooperation, and the legacy costs of pension liabilities and infrastructure decay.

Contributors are Phil Ashton, Raphael Bostic, Richard Feiock, Rachel A. Gordon, Rebecca Hendrick, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, David Merriman, Richard Nathan, Michael A. Pagano, Breeze Richardson, Annette Steinacker, Nik Theodore, Rachel Weber, and Margaret Weir.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Pagano is dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and professor of public administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, faculty fellow of UIC's Great Cities Institute, and coeditor of The Dynamics of Federalism in National and Supranational Political Systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252038207
• ISBN 13: 9780252038204
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Pagano Michael A.