Screen LibraryBloomberg's New York : class and governance in the luxury city /
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...
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University of Georgia Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Athens, Georgia : |
| Publication Dates: | [2011] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Geographies of justice and social transformation ;
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| Summary: |
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 Wayùa 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 arrangementsùand opportunities for social justiceùremain. --Book Jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780820336817 0820336815 9780820335667 0820335665 |
| Index Number: | JS1230 |
| CLC: |
F299.712.1 D771.232 |
| Call Number: | D771.232/B823 |