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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © 2010 American Sociological Association
- ISSN
- 1535-6841
- eISSN
- 1540-6040
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1540-6040.2010.01334.x
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Book Reviews THE LEFTMOST CITY:POWER AND PROGRESSIVE POLITICS IN SANTA CRUZ, by Richard Gendron and G. William Domhoff. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2009. ISBN:978-0- 8133-4438-6 (paper); 240 pp. Reviewed by Norman Krumholz Cleveland State University Santa Cruz is a medium-sized city on the Pacific Ocean between mountains and beaches. After a recent visit there, I had the impression that the city was a laid-back outpost of playful freedom. Thefirst fewpages of The Leftmost City: Power and Progressive Politics in Santa Cruz quickly corrected my impression. Beneath the placid surface lay some 40 years of political organi- zation, struggle, and conflict as a progressive coalition of neighborhood advocates, social welfare liberals, environmentalists, and socialist-feminists squared off—and won—against the business community for control of land use and development in the city. The Leftmost City offers the details of the struggle. It is a brilliant piece of sociological/political/urban planning research that offers both a rigorous case study of the politics of the commu- nity and a critical analysis of urban political theory. It is also a framework for exercising effective political action against entrenched business interests. In most American communities of the 20th century, the organized business commu- nity sets the community’s priorities
Journal
City and Community – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 2010