Organizing to change a city / Kitty Kelly Epstein ; with Kimberly Mayfield Lynch and J. Douglas Allen-Taylor.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: the problem and promise of cities
- "The power of the people beat the power of the machine" : recruiting a mayor
- The national context : the racial wealth gap : and the history of urban governance
- Who ran Oakland? : the history of the first machine
- Participatory action on a grand scale : a thousand residents make policy
- Homicide rate drops 40% : how a progressive deals with public safety
- Economic engines for old industrial cities : the port of Oakland
- Jobs : three local policies that make a difference for the 99%
- Economic development : progressives and the chamber of commerce
- Education and the city
- Reflections of an activist / Kimberly Mayfield Lynch
- The Oakland experience and what academics call "participatory action research"
- Electoral innovation : instant run-off voting and the election of the first Asian woman mayor in the U.S. / J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
- Three on-going campaigns
- Gentrification and the racial wealth gap in a national context
- Organizing to change a city : revisiting the tactics
- Organizing to change a city : taking space
- Organizing to change a city : strategic necessities
- Appendices
- Appendix one: Documents of the task force process
- Implemented task force recommendations
- Roles and responsibilities of task force conveners
- Working agreements for participants
- Sample questions guiding individual task forces
- Appendix two: Sample documents demonstrating the changing approach to economic development
- "Oakland oks industrial land-use policy"
- Oakland army base community benefits agreement on jobs
- Appendix three: Some relevant web sites
- Appendix four: A brief oakland time line
- References.