Private Metropolis — University of Minnesota Press

Private Metropolis — University of Minnesota Press

This is the new book, coming out later this year, that Dennis Judd, Alba Alexander, and I edited.  Here's the writeup, and you can read more by following the link to the publisher's page on the book:

"Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions In recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of “shadow governments” that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with municipalities and other local governments inherited from the urban past. The essays in Private Metropolis grapple with the difficult and timely questions that arise from this new ecology of governance, provoking a long-overdue debate about the future of urban governance."