Bloomberg's New York : class and governance in the luxury city

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Label

Bloomberg's New York : class and governance in the luxury city

Title remainder

class and governance in the luxury city

Statement of responsibility

Julian Brash

Creator

• Brash, Julian

Author

• Brash, Julian

Subject

• Bloomberg, Michael
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Elite (Social sciences)
• Elite (Social sciences) -- New York (State) | New York
• HISTORY -- State & Local
• HISTORY -- State & Local | General
• New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
• New York (State) -- New York
• Politics and government
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography
• Since 1951
• Urban renewal
• Urban renewal -- New York (State) | New York
• Bloomberg, Michael

Language

eng

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 Way-a 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 arrangements-and opportunities for social justice-remain

Member of

• Geographies of justice and social transformation, 6
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

974.7/1044

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

JS1230

LC item number

.B73 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Geographies of justice and social transformation

Series volume

6