Managing Cities in Austerity: Urban Fiscal Stress in Ten Western Countries (Urban Innovation series) - Hardcover

`This is an impressive and successful effort at comparative urban analysis...an excellent overview...This is a very important volume, carrying comparative urban research to a new level of excellence. The editors and authors are to be highly commended.' - Urban Studies

`a well-constructed and well-argued book, which highlights a number of key questions, while also managing to answer a few... a thought-provoking and stimulating book.' - Local Government Studies

Managing Cities in Austerity fills a major gap in the literature on urban policy-making and comparative public policy. The product of one of the largest comparative social science research projects ever undertaken, the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation project, it maintains a genuinely comparative approach. An international team of authors applies a coherent set of concepts about fiscal austerity to over 2,500 local governments in ten Western countries. Most significantly, survey and hard fiscal data are merged not only at city but at national level.