Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has e

Philip J. Ethington challenges the assumptions of several decades of urban history that treat American urban politics as the expression of social-group communit

Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. Efforts to secure the American city have life-or-death implications, yet demand

City Politics is a comprehensive text organized around the theme of political economy. Using a historical approach to reveal enduring patterns in urban politics

First Published in 1996. Part of a series that brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the U