GEO 320 Urban Geography Fall 2007
Department of Geography and Meteorology, Valparaiso University
Political Geography of the City

History of Urban Governance

Metropolitan Fragmentation

• Fiscal Imbalance and Sociospatial Inequality.
• Fiscal Mercantilism
• Municipal Service Delivery and Inequality
  

Spatiality of Key Actors

• Elected officials
• Bureaucracy
• Parapolitical structure
  • Quangos and the Shadow State
• Business
• Labor
• Citizen organizations and Special Interest Groups
• Homeowners Associations
• Urban Social movements

Urban Power Structures

• Monolithic vs. Pluralistic urban power structures
• Regime Theory
• Political Economy of Contemporary Cities