Robert E. England, John P. Pelissero, David R. Morgan Managing Urban America

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In Managing Urban America, Eighth Edition, the authors guide students through the politics of urban management-doing less with more while managing conflict, delivering goods and services, responding to federal and state mandates, adapting to changing demographics, and coping with economic and budgetary challenges. This revision: highlights the difficulties cities confront as theydeal with thelingering economicchallenges of the 2008 Recession evaluatesthe concept of e-government, and offers numerous examples in both theory and practice considersenvironmental issues and the implications for urban government management includes new case studies, including some with a global perspective as the authors examine the management of international cities thoroughly updates all data and scholarship.