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Smith, Michael Peter was born on August 2, 1942 in Dunkirk, New York, United States. Son of Peter Joseph and Rosalie Barbara (Lipka) Smith.
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Nineteen sociology and political science scholars examine racial and ethnic struggles and tensions by helping the reader to begin to identify and define its characteristics. The essays include: the social construction of racial and ethnic difference, black ghettoization and social mobility, the lega
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Urban policies are informed by the prescriptions of modern economics: Keynesian, monetarist, and neo-Marxist. In this overview, the author cuts through these policies to demonstrate the need for politically motivated solutions to our continuing urban problems. Blending historical description and theoretical analysis with empirical arguments, the author places the needs and rights of the citizen at the centre of urban political economy.
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The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of resistance to continued modernization. In Marginal Spaces, Michael Smith has assembled case studies combining structural and historical analyses of the moves of powerful social interests to dominate social space, and the tactics and strategies various marginalized social groups employ to reclaim dominated space for their own use. The marginal spaces embodied in the title of this fifth volume of the Comparative Urban and Community Research series include five sites of domination and resistance. A squatters' movement in Ann Arbor, Michigan, resists the adverse consequences of four decades of urban development. A homeless encampment in Chicago engages hi "guerilla architecture" and other moves designed to reconstitute prevailing social constructions of the problem of "homelessness." An antigentrification movement hi the East Village of New York engages hi an ongoing struggle to resist efforts by developers to market their neighborhood as space for luxury condominium development. There is a Public Housing Council organized by African American women hi New Orleans that is resisting both the material regulation of their daily lives and the dominant social construction of public housing as a racially gendered space suitable only for "dependent" women and children of color. Finally, there is a subordinate labor market niche hi California agriculture where indigenous Mixtec peasants from Oaxaca are displacing the more traditional mestizo farm workers, but who are also politically organizing as a transnational grassroots movement, pursuing a binational strategy to alleviate then- economic, political, and cultural marginality. Contributions and contributors include: "House People, Not Cars!" by Corey Dolgon, Michael Kline, and Laura Dresser; "Tranquillity City" by Tahnadge Wright; "Private Redevelopment and the Changing Forms of Displacement hi the East Village of New York" by Christopher Mele; "Resisting Racially Gendered Space" by Alma Young and Jyaphia Christos-Rodgers; and "Mixtecs and Mestizos hi California Agriculture" by Carol Zabin. This volume will be of interest to urban planners, sociologists, and political scientists, especially those with strong interests hi local ethnography and concrete policy.
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The world of modern capitalism is a global network both of corporations and of cities - 'world command cities' such as New York, London and Tokyo; 'specialized command cities' which concentrate on particular industries, such as Detroit; 'state command cities' such as Washington and Brasilia; and so on. These cities, linked by an organizational web of transnational corporations, are the pins holding the capitalist world economy together in the new international division of labour. In The Capitalist City a group of eminent scholars analyzes the intricate relationships among cities, state policies and urban politics at a time of economic restructuring at global, national and local levels to provide an original and timely contribution to one of the most important areas of political and social science.
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researcher social science educator
Smith, Michael Peter was born on August 2, 1942 in Dunkirk, New York, United States. Son of Peter Joseph and Rosalie Barbara (Lipka) Smith.
Bachelor magna cum laude, St. Michael's College, 1964; Master of Arts in Political Science, U. Massachusetts, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, U. Massachusetts, 1971.
Instructor, assistant professor department government, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1968-1971;
assistant professor department political science, Boston University, 1971-1974;
associate professor, professor department political science, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1974-1986;
professor community studies, University of California, Davis, since 1986;
department chairman applied behavioral science, University of California, Davis, 1986-1991. Visiting professor public policy University of California, Berkeley, 1981, city planning U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1982, city planning University of California, Berkeley, 1985. Visiting scholar in government U. Essex, England, 1979.
Visiting scholar political and socialsci. U. Cambridge, England, 1982. Visiting scholar Institute Urban and RegionalDevel., University of California, Berkeley, 1990.
(The world of modern capitalism is a global network both o...)
(The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban devel...)
(Nineteen sociology and political science scholars examine...)
(Urban policies are informed by the prescriptions of moder...)
Member International Political Science Association, American Political Science Association, International Sociological Association Research Coms. on Urban & Regional Development and ComparativeCommunity Research.
Married Patricia Anne Lendway, August 21, 1965.