{"product_id":"global-urban-policy-david-kaufmann-9780472078028","title":"Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analyzing State and Society","description":"Cities are active policy innovators of global importance, whether responding to climate change, migration, poverty, or health disparities, or aiming to generate growth. Since cities adapt to the needs and interests of global capital, they may implement policies that slight the well-being of everyday residents and the most vulnerable. How cities choose to contribute to a democratic and sustainable future reveals dimensions of political life playing out in society at large. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Urban Policy\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that to understand contemporary societal transformation--and political and policy processes more generally--we need to study the policies that cities create and implement. Going beyond thinking of \"urban\" as a physical site, the authors show that an urban mode of life is one marked by diversity, complexity, chaos, flexibility, and ongoing change. With eleven empirical case studies, the authors examine issues including housing and urban development, migration, climate change, and crime in cities as varied as Berlin, Medellín, Chicago, Accra, Guangzhou, São Paulo, Mumbai, and Saint Etienne. The studies show how contemporary confrontations between public and private property, power and justice, participation and exclusion, wealth and poverty, and emerging technology and existing economic, social, and political structures take physical form in cities. \u003ci\u003eGlobal Urban Policy\u003c\/i\u003e engages with theoretical developments in public policy, urban politics, and urban studies to develop and demonstrate a framework for urban policy analysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Kaufmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 047207802X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472078028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"David Kaufmann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47520197869823,"sku":"9780472078028","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34539bdd-81a3-4e3d-a95e-c756c9b0a11e.jpg?v=1762884117","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/global-urban-policy-david-kaufmann-9780472078028","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}