Geography
Place-based or place-positioned?: Framing and making the spaces of urban politics
Document Type
Article
Abstract
A famous saying in the United States usually attributed to ‘Tip’ O’Neill, a former Massachusetts politician and Speaker in the US House of Representatives, is that “all politics is local”, and certainly few politics are more local than ‘urban politics’, which by definition are based in some urban area or another. Politics can mean many things to people, but one way to think about urban politics is to think about how decisions in cities get made that affect all or most residents in one way or another. There are many spaces of politics within cities. ‘Local’ urban politics are those that shape or affect a particular part of a city, such as a business district or a neighbourhood.
Publication Title
The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics
Publication Date
2018
First Page
26
Last Page
34
ISBN
9781317495024,9781138890329
DOI
10.4324/9781315712468
Keywords
political ecology, social capital, urban politics
Repository Citation
Martin, Deborah G., "Place-based or place-positioned?: Framing and making the spaces of urban politics" (2018). Geography. 340.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/340