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GCI Working Paper Series - 2006
Regionalizing the
Global-Local Economic Nexus: A Tale of Two Regions in China
Xiangming Chen
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar 2005-2006
March 2006
GCP-06-01
This paper offers a new framework for conceptualizing and analyzing
region as capable of mediating or restructuring global-local economic
relations in varied ways. It describes the structural and spatial formations
of regionalized global-local value chains and production networks, analyzes
the opportunities and constraints for indigenous Chinese firms in the
two regions of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) and the Yangtze River Delta
(YRD) to achieve industrial upgrading.
Financing
Infrastructure in the 21st Century City: “How Did I Get Stuck
Holding the Bag?”
Michael A. Pagano
Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Public Administration,
Great Cities Senior Faculty Fellow
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois
at Chicago
David C. Perry
Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
Director of Great Cities Institute
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois
at Chicago
May 2006
GCP-06-02
This essay identifies critical issues in financing city infrastructure
and a realistic set of options available to policymakers. In particular,
the report examines trends toward decentralization and fragmentation
of governmental and financial institutions and toward market-based and
consumer- or customer-oriented policies.
From
Daley to Daley: Chicago Politics from 1955-2006
Dick Simpson
Associate Professor, Department of History
Professor, Department of Political Science
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar 2005-2006
May 2006
GCP-06-03
In the past fifty years Chicago has been transformed socially, economically,
governmentally and politically. By tracing campaign contributions, aldermanic
voting, election results, and government jobs and contracts we can begin
to trace the political transformation. Yet, a full explanation requires
considering biographical facts and social forces as well. This paper
begins that exploration.
The New Chicago School
- Not New York or L.A.,
And Why It Matters to Urban Social Science
Terry Nichols Clark
University of Chicago
September 2006
GCP-06-04
Michael Dear et al’s “LA School” builds on a critique
of the old Chicago school. This paper extends the discussion by incorporating
broader theories about how cities work, stressing culture and politics.
New Yorkers lean toward class analysis, production, inequality, dual
labor markets, and related themes--deriving for some from a secular
Marxism. LA writers are more often individualist, subjectivist, consumption-oriented;
some are also postmodernist. Chicago is the largest American city with
a heavily Catholic population, which heightens attention to personal
relations, extended families, neighborhoods, and ethnic traditions.
These in turn lead observers to stress culture and politics in Chicago,
as these vary so heavily by subculture. The paper outlines seven axial
points for a New Chicago School.
Urban
Aesthetics and the Excess of Fact
Helen Liggett
Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland
State University
October 2006
GCP-06-05
The “excess of fact” describes the complexity and crowded
nature of un-staged photography, where many factors aside from the single
subject interact to create meaning. This essay examines the ways in
which three modes of “excess of fact” in urban life—echoes,
encounters and exchange—create an urban aesthetics. Taking back
the right to the city and dialogic occasions are explored in this discussion
of the construction of meaningful urban existence.
Marketing Safe Sex: The
Politics of Sexuality, Race and Class in San Francisco, 1983-1991
Jennifer Brier
Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar 2005 - 2006
May 2006
GCP-06-06
This paper explores the growth of two AIDS organizations in
San Francisco: the San Francisco AIDS Foundation started in 1982, the
largest AIDS service organization in the city and one of the largest
in the nation, and the Third World Advisory Task Force (TWAATF), a community
based organization formed in 1985 to focus attention on AIDS in communities
of color to understand both the evolution of AIDS prevention work as
well as how that process elucidates the larger political landscape of
the 1980s.
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