Todd Swanstrom
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 245522 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Todd Swanstrom |
| NOMBRES | Todd |
| APELLIDO | Swanstrom |
| FIRMA | SWANSTROM T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7731-1956 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 271 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Place Matters
Deconstructing Gentrification
Pragmatic Knowledge Production
“Knowledge infrastructures” are critical to producing research and spurring action on policy issues. We argue that the existing infrastructure of knowledge on housing problems in the United States is ill-suited for understanding issues of housing quality and deterioration. Specifically, we argue that the principal national database for understanding housing quality, the American Housing Survey, is seriously flawed. After identifying specific blin…
What to Make of Gentrification in Older Industrial Cities? Comparing St. Louis (USA) and Dortmund (Germany)
Few scholars have studied gentrification in older industrial cities across different national contexts. A review of the literature suggests that gentrification in older industrial cities will look different in systematic ways from gentrification in global, magnet cities that most research has focused on. The literature also suggests that the political and institutional differences in cities located in different national contexts can shape gentrif…
Private metropolis
Hypermobility and Educational Outcomes
The school mobility rate in St. Louis Public Schools was 40% in 2011-2012, meaning that nearly half of students exited or entered a given school midway through the school year. This alarmingly high rate of churning across schools is accompanied by high neighborhood turnover, particularly within low-income, urban neighborhoods. This constant, disruptive change presents a serious and fundamental challenge for urban education. In this article, we su…
Rejoinder to Critics of Place Matters
This rejoinder to the previous three critiques acknowledges the gaps and omissions in Place Matters but defends its central argument about the need for a political coalition to push for more regional approaches to spatial inequalities supported by more progressive state and national policies
Reflections on Place Matters
On the occasion of the publication of the 3rd edition, one of the authors of Place Matters reflects on the tensions in the arguments of the book and how it has been variously received by scholars. After addressing the question of whether we know enough about place effects to use them to guide public policy, he responds to the criticism that efforts to reduce concentrated poverty actually harm the poor, reflects on the interplay of race and class,…
Capacity, Capacity, Capacity
The Act establishing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1965 articulated a broad mission for the new cabinet-level department: The Congress hereby declares that the gener
Civic Capacity and School/Community Partnerships in a Fragmented Suburban Setting
This paper uses the “civic capacity” framework to analyze an emerging school–community reform initiative, called 24:1, focused on an inner-ring suburban school district. Contrary to the existing literature on civic capacity, we argue that institutions strongly influence civic capacity building. A fragmented public sector and weak institutions of civil society, especially when combined with racial divisions and poverty, restrict the ability of loc…
Poverty and Social Exclusion
xii, 684 p. ; 25 cm
Justice and the American Metropolis
Going Regional
Community-based regionalism (CBR) is the attempt by community-based organizations (CBOs) to reorient regional policies to benefit disadvantaged communities. Advocates of CBR have mostly called not for regional governments, but for collaborative regional governance processes. This article examines the efforts of (CBOs) to form regional governance processes that target jobs from federally funded transportation projects to disadvantaged communities.…
Regionalism, Equality, and Democracy
The Calculus of Coalitions
Reductions in federal urban assistance and devolution have made cities increasingly reliant on their state governments at a time when cities have lost political strength in state legislatures. This article identifies three types of coalitions that historically supported cities: party-imposed coalitions, interest-based coalitions, and governor-brokered coalitions. It shows how institutional, demographic, and economic changes have made these legisl…
Growth and convergence in metropolitan America. Urban sprawl
Economic Inequality and Public Policy
In recent decades two broad trends in American society have been well–documented: rising income inequality and rising segregation of economic classes across space in metropolitan areas. The thesis of this article is that rising economic segregation is both a cause of rising economic inequality and amplifies its effects in ways that do not showup in the income statistics. The article synthesizes the evidence on the contextual effects of economic s…
Place Matters
Fenced off
Are Fear and Urbanism at War
Dense cities are vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Therefore, some scholars argue, we should deconcentrate American cities further, denying future terrorists targets of opportunity. But flee ing dense and diverse cities would undermine one of our greatest strengths in the so-called war on terrorism. Cities have frequently been dangerous places, but over the centuries people have flocked to them because of the economic opportunities and freedom the…
Place Matters
What We Argue about When We Argue about Regionalism
A new debate emerged in the 1990s about regional solutions to urban problems. The debate has been carried out overwhelmingly within a welfare economics framework that stresses the economic costs and benefits of regional governance structures. Unlike earlier debates about regional reforms, the new regionalists emphasize not just that more collaborative regional governance structures will improve local services but that they will enhance the compet…
Minority Mayors and the Hollow-Prize Problem
The number of African American and Hispanic mayors of American cities has grown steadily since 1967, the year that Cleveland elected Carl Stokes the first minority mayor of a major American city.Throughout this paper, we use the term "minority" to refer to African Americans and Hispanics. In doing so, we do not assume that African American and Hispanic voters have the same preferences, nor do we intend to minimize the significant diversity within…
Confrontin Policy Fragmentation
City Politics
Contents Preface CHAPTER 1 Evolution of City in America: An Introduction Cities in the Global Era of Growth of Governance of Defended Space Unfinished Task PART I Changing Dynamics of Urban Politics: First Century CHAPTER 2 Political Legacy of America's Urban Past National Development and the Cities OUTTAKE: City-Building Has Always Required Public Efforts A Century of Urban Growth Inter-Urban Rivalry and the of Growth Industrialization and the D…
The Calculus of Coalitions
Reductions in federal urban assistance and devolution have made cities increasingly reliant on their state governments at a time when cities have lost political strength in state legislatures. This article identifies three types of coalitions that historically supported cities: party-imposed coalitions, interest-based coalitions, and governor-brokered coalitions. It shows how institutional, demographic, and economic changes have made these legisl…
What We Argue about When We Argue about Regionalism
A new debate emerged in the 1990s about regional solutions to urban problems. The debate has been carried out overwhelmingly within a welfare economics framework that stresses the economic costs and benefits of regional governance structures. Unlike earlier debates about regional reforms, the new regionalists emphasize not just that more collaborative regional governance structures will improve local services but that they will enhance the compet…
Semisovereign Cities
Economic theories of urban politics are plentiful and commonly see city policy making as tightly constrained by the economic environment. This article challenges that view. It finds that the empirical literature on tax incentives fails to show that economic constraints on local policy making are as tight as economic theories contend. Slack in the intergovernmental marketplace allows room for a wide range of political influences on policy making. …
Beyond Economism
Urban political economy has been prone to two errors: overgeneralizing to abstract theory and overemphasizing the role of economic interests. Drawing on postmodern philosophy, the author examines these two errors, which he labels economism, and suggests a more concrete culturally rooted approach to urban political economy. The author develops his argument through a critique of the conventional concept of urban economic restructuring. Far from bei…
The Crisis of Growth Politics
By demonstrating the political role which investment plays in local politics, this book breaks new ground in the study of community power. Until recently, students of community power ignored growth politics because they saw the economic context of cities as nonpolitical. This study examines the effect of mobile investment on political power and public policy in Cleveland, a dying industrial city with an expanding downtown service sector. Swanstro…
Economic Inequality and Public Policy
In recent decades two broad trends in American society have been well–documented: rising income inequality and rising segregation of economic classes across space in metropolitan areas. The thesis of this article is that rising economic segregation is both a cause of rising economic inequality and amplifies its effects in ways that do not showup in the income statistics. The article synthesizes the evidence on the contextual effects of economic s…
Minority Mayors and the Hollow-Prize Problem
The number of African American and Hispanic mayors of American cities has grown steadily since 1967, the year that Cleveland elected Carl Stokes the first minority mayor of a major American city.Throughout this paper, we use the term "minority" to refer to African Americans and Hispanics. In doing so, we do not assume that African American and Hispanic voters have the same preferences, nor do we intend to minimize the significant diversity within…
The Urban Electorate in Presidential Elections, 1920-1996
This study of voting in presidential elections in 12 central cities from 1920 to 1996 shows that cities played a crucial role in the New Deal realignment that dominated presidential elections from 1932 to the 1960s. Since then, cities have declined as a share of the total electorate, but they still provide crucial votes for successful Democratic presidential candidates. As cities have increasingly deviated from national voting trends, however, th…
Regionalism, Equality, and Democracy
Debt Wish
Journal Article Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development Get access Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development by Alberta M. Sbragia. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 296 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.95. Todd Swanstrom Todd Swanstrom State Universtiy of New YorkAlbany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qu…
Going Regional
Community-based regionalism (CBR) is the attempt by community-based organizations (CBOs) to reorient regional policies to benefit disadvantaged communities. Advocates of CBR have mostly called not for regional governments, but for collaborative regional governance processes. This article examines the efforts of (CBOs) to form regional governance processes that target jobs from federally funded transportation projects to disadvantaged communities.…
Hypermobility and Educational Outcomes
The school mobility rate in St. Louis Public Schools was 40% in 2011-2012, meaning that nearly half of students exited or entered a given school midway through the school year. This alarmingly high rate of churning across schools is accompanied by high neighborhood turnover, particularly within low-income, urban neighborhoods. This constant, disruptive change presents a serious and fundamental challenge for urban education. In this article, we su…
Are Fear and Urbanism at War
Dense cities are vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Therefore, some scholars argue, we should deconcentrate American cities further, denying future terrorists targets of opportunity. But flee ing dense and diverse cities would undermine one of our greatest strengths in the so-called war on terrorism. Cities have frequently been dangerous places, but over the centuries people have flocked to them because of the economic opportunities and freedom the…
The Limits of Strategic Planning for Cities
Developed in the private sector, strategic planning is rapidly being applied to cities. This article describes public sector strategic planning, places it in the history of urban planning and evaluates its goal orientation and effectiveness. Strategic planning is shown to be closely related to rational-comprehensive planning; as such, it is open to the same types of criticisms that have been leveled at rational planning reforms. At the same time,…
Civic Capacity and School/Community Partnerships in a Fragmented Suburban Setting
This paper uses the “civic capacity” framework to analyze an emerging school–community reform initiative, called 24:1, focused on an inner-ring suburban school district. Contrary to the existing literature on civic capacity, we argue that institutions strongly influence civic capacity building. A fragmented public sector and weak institutions of civil society, especially when combined with racial divisions and poverty, restrict the ability of loc…
Confrontin Policy Fragmentation
Capacity, Capacity, Capacity
The Act establishing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1965 articulated a broad mission for the new cabinet-level department: The Congress hereby declares that the gener
The stubborn persistence of local land use powers
The Crisis of Growth Politics
The Crisis of Growth Politics
By demonstrating the political role which investment plays in local politics, this book breaks new ground in the study of community power. Until recently, students of community power ignored growth politics because they saw the economic context of cities as nonpolitical. This study examines the effect of mobile investment on political power and public policy in Cleveland, a dying industrial city with an expanding downtown service sector. Swanstro…
The Crisis of Growth Politics
The Limits of Strategic Planning for Cities
Developed in the private sector, strategic planning is rapidly being applied to cities. This article describes public sector strategic planning, places it in the history of urban planning and evaluates its goal orientation and effectiveness. Strategic planning is shown to be closely related to rational-comprehensive planning; as such, it is open to the same types of criticisms that have been leveled at rational planning reforms. At the same time,…
Urban social movements
Three Views of Urban Crisis
Semisovereign Cities
Economic theories of urban politics are plentiful and commonly see city policy making as tightly constrained by the economic environment. This article challenges that view. It finds that the empirical literature on tax incentives fails to show that economic constraints on local policy making are as tight as economic theories contend. Slack in the intergovernmental marketplace allows room for a wide range of political influences on policy making. …
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Seventh Urban Change and Conflict Conference, University of Bristol, September 1989
Beyond the City Limits
Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Urban Restructuring: A Critical View - John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom Part II. Urban Policy: National and International Comparisons 2. Political Paradoxes of Urban Restructuring: Globalization of the Economy and Localization of Politics? - Edmond Preteceille 3. Industrial Restructuring, State Intervention, and Uneven Development in the United States and Japan - Richard C. Hill 4. Political Responses to Urban Rest…
Beyond Economism
Urban political economy has been prone to two errors: overgeneralizing to abstract theory and overemphasizing the role of economic interests. Drawing on postmodern philosophy, the author examines these two errors, which he labels economism, and suggests a more concrete culturally rooted approach to urban political economy. The author develops his argument through a critique of the conventional concept of urban economic restructuring. Far from bei…
Introduction
Introduction: A Tribute to the Work of Norton Long." Journal of Urban Affairs, 17(3), pp. 301–302
Philosopher in the City
Debt Wish
Journal Article Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development Get access Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development by Alberta M. Sbragia. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 296 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.95. Todd Swanstrom Todd Swanstrom State Universtiy of New YorkAlbany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Qu…
The Urban Electorate in Presidential Elections, 1920-1996
This study of voting in presidential elections in 12 central cities from 1920 to 1996 shows that cities played a crucial role in the New Deal realignment that dominated presidential elections from 1932 to the 1960s. Since then, cities have declined as a share of the total electorate, but they still provide crucial votes for successful Democratic presidential candidates. As cities have increasingly deviated from national voting trends, however, th…
The stubborn persistence of local land use powers
What We Argue about When We Argue about Regionalism
A new debate emerged in the 1990s about regional solutions to urban problems. The debate has been carried out overwhelmingly within a welfare economics framework that stresses the economic costs and benefits of regional governance structures. Unlike earlier debates about regional reforms, the new regionalists emphasize not just that more collaborative regional governance structures will improve local services but that they will enhance the compet…
Minority Mayors and the Hollow-Prize Problem
The number of African American and Hispanic mayors of American cities has grown steadily since 1967, the year that Cleveland elected Carl Stokes the first minority mayor of a major American city.Throughout this paper, we use the term "minority" to refer to African Americans and Hispanics. In doing so, we do not assume that African American and Hispanic voters have the same preferences, nor do we intend to minimize the significant diversity within…
Confrontin Policy Fragmentation
Economic Inequality and Public Policy
In recent decades two broad trends in American society have been well–documented: rising income inequality and rising segregation of economic classes across space in metropolitan areas. The thesis of this article is that rising economic segregation is both a cause of rising economic inequality and amplifies its effects in ways that do not showup in the income statistics. The article synthesizes the evidence on the contextual effects of economic s…
Place Matters
Fenced off
Are Fear and Urbanism at War
Dense cities are vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Therefore, some scholars argue, we should deconcentrate American cities further, denying future terrorists targets of opportunity. But flee ing dense and diverse cities would undermine one of our greatest strengths in the so-called war on terrorism. Cities have frequently been dangerous places, but over the centuries people have flocked to them because of the economic opportunities and freedom the…
Place Matters
Growth and convergence in metropolitan America. Urban sprawl
The Calculus of Coalitions
Reductions in federal urban assistance and devolution have made cities increasingly reliant on their state governments at a time when cities have lost political strength in state legislatures. This article identifies three types of coalitions that historically supported cities: party-imposed coalitions, interest-based coalitions, and governor-brokered coalitions. It shows how institutional, demographic, and economic changes have made these legisl…
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