Description: The authors draw on comparative data from 10 medium sized cities and examine 40 city-supported development projects to show how city investment in, and regulation of, development projects is the most effective way for political leaders to control and shape the future of their city. 19 illustrations.
Review Quotes: Michael Pagano and Ann Bowman have written an informative and provocative book that opens new terrain for students of urban politics and local economic development. Based on a comparative analysis of ten medium-sized U.S. cities and forty development projects, Cityscapes and Capital explores the role of image, vision, and leadership in mobilizing public capital to attract private capital to maintain or expand a city's niche within regional, national, and increasingly global urban hierarchies.
--Richard E. DeLeon, American Political Science Review