Bloomberg's New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City Contributor(s): Brash, Julian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820336815 ISBN-13: 9780820336817 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development |
Dewey: 974.710 |
LCCN: 2010027198 |
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.16 lbs) 344 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In Bloomberg's New York, Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology, geography, and other social science disciplines to examine what that means. He describes the mayor's attitude toward governance as the Bloomberg Way--a philosophy that holds up the mayor as CEO, government as a private corporation, desirable residents and businesses as customers and clients, and the city itself as a product to be branded and marketed as a luxury good. Commonly represented as pragmatic and nonideological, the Bloomberg Way, Brash argues, is in fact an ambitious reformulation of neoliberal governance that advances specific class interests. He considers the implications of this in a blow-by-blow account of the debate over the Hudson Yards plan, which aimed to transform Manhattan's far west side into the city's next great high-end district. Bringing this plan to fruition proved surprisingly difficult as activists and entrenched interests pushed back against the Bloomberg administration, suggesting that despite Bloomberg's success in redrawing the rules of urban governance, older political arrangements--and opportunities for social justice--remain. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brash, Julian: - JULIAN BRASH is an associate professor of anthropology at Montclair State University. His work has been published in Urban Anthropology, Critique of Anthropology, Social Text, Cultural Geography, and Antipode. |