Rethinking Municipal Privatization - Brossura

Cooke, Oliver D.

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ISBN 10: 0415543118 ISBN 13: 9780415543118

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations―the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke demonstrates, these justifications were deliberately blind to the social and economic implication of privatization. This fascinating account moves beyond the hackneyed pro- versus anti-privatization debate by reconceptualizing the park’s privatization as an ensemble of contradictory class effects. It also highlights the immense theoretical and policy space for radically reconsidering and rethinking privatization processes in both the municipal and global contexts.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Oliver D. Cooke

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415543118
• ISBN 13: 9780415543118
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 210
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania