Into the twenty-first century: North American urban governance and development in a global context

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Notes

1. Both  of the guest editors for this special issue are political scientists, and the reader will note a stronger emphasis on studies relating to the politics of cities throughout this introduction.

2. The study of policy agenda change is located primarily in the field of American politics, with scholars such as Sapotichne (2009) and his co-authors bringing it to the local level.

3. This includes various forms of local government – County, municipal, township, special district, and school district.

4. Of course, we are not the first to be making such comparisons. Derek Hyra (2008) makes the connection clear in his text The New Urban Renewal, which focuses on processes of community revitalization/gentrification in New York’s Harlem and Chicago’s Bronzeville.