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Models Of Urban Governance And Planning In Latin America And The United States: Associationism, Regime Theory, And Communicative Action, Clara Irazabal Jul 2004

Models Of Urban Governance And Planning In Latin America And The United States: Associationism, Regime Theory, And Communicative Action, Clara Irazabal

Clara Irazabal

In many American and Latin American cities alike, urban governance and planning are either in urgent need of reform or are currently undergoing haphazard reform. In many cases, innovative attempts to implement reforms have failed because the inability of cities to develop their 'civic capacity' -- the capacity to build and maintain broad social and political multi-sectoral coalitions in pursuit of common goals. This article argues that these significant points of convergence are productive building blocks for the construction of more generalizable models of urban governance and planning in democratic cities in the Americas and beyond. It situates coalition and …


Review Of The Grit Beneath The Glitter, Ed. Hal K. Rothman And Mike Davis, And Neon Metropolis, By Hal K. Rothman, Clara Irazabal Jan 2004

Review Of The Grit Beneath The Glitter, Ed. Hal K. Rothman And Mike Davis, And Neon Metropolis, By Hal K. Rothman, Clara Irazabal

Clara Irazabal

Deception and self-deception have become second nature in Las Vegas, which is why these books by Hal Rothman and Mike Davis provide much appreciated critical perspective. They allow the readers to engage "the city of desires" in profound and multifaceted ways. While Las Vegas is called "the city of the future" or "the city of the twenty-first century," the editors and authors of The Grit Beneath the Glitter rightfully ask whether Las Vegas would also be "the new American nightmare?" (p. 9).


What Politics Is This Place? (Post)Glocal Politics In Latin America's Public Spaces, Clara Irazabal Jan 2004

What Politics Is This Place? (Post)Glocal Politics In Latin America's Public Spaces, Clara Irazabal

Clara Irazabal

The IASTE 2004 conference proposes that "postglobal is not an end to globalization but the emergence of a different kind of engagement that is sharply at odds with the visions of liberal, multicultural globalization. Here, both religious fundamentalism and imperial hegemony begin to emerge as the new forms of." Yet, there are other types of (post)globalizations (Sklair, 2002). And at least one such alternative form of global engagement is that which (desperately) holds on to the visions of a liberal, multicultural globalization in the politics of nation building, particularly as enacted in urban spaces. Focusing on this form, this paper …


A Planned City Comes Of Age: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana Today, Clara Irazabal Jan 2004

A Planned City Comes Of Age: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana Today, Clara Irazabal

Clara Irazabal

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