TY - BOOK AU - Reese,Laura A. AU - Rosenfeld,Raymond A. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Comparative civic culture: the role of local culture in urban policy-making AV - HT123 .C66 2012eb U1 - 306.20973 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate KW - Urban policy KW - United States KW - Case studies KW - Canada KW - Political culture KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Comparative civic culture: theory and methods -- Categorizing civic cultures: testing a typology of local civic culture -- Inclusive/bureaucratic cities: Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Vancouver -- Partnerships in Pittsburgh: civic cultures and organizational capacities -- Civic culture in Ottawa: the endurance of local culture -- Vancouver: the sustainable city -- Market-active and passive cities: Charlotte, Calgary, Cleveland, Louisville -- Civic culture and corporate regime in Louisville -- A perpetual crisis: Cleveland's unfinished, changing, and incomplete civic agenda -- Civic culture as a policy premise: appraising Charlotte's civic culture -- Civic culture in Calgary: the oil and developers' land -- Individualistic cities: Dallas and Miami -- A tale of two cities: civic culture and public policy in Miami -- The civic culture of Dallas, Texas -- Conclusion: a theory of local civic culture; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10529451 ER -