THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CITY POWER.

The article focuses on the current states of political economy of city power and discusses the efforts taken to reform the same in the U.S. Topics discussed include practice of treating cities as competitors in a global marketplace for capital and labor; efforts taken by the U.S. Government to address the weaknesses through institutional reforms such as home rule, national urban policy, and regionalism; and Milliken v. Bradley court case on same.