Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture. It is their material and human cultural infrastructure that also makes them archives and works of art. The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities critically re-examines the relationship between the urban and its cultures. It...

Contents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? -- 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance -- 3. Towards city statecraft -- 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK's centralised state -- 5. Deal or no deal? Austerity, decentralisation...

The book uses the two key findings of the extant literature-the need to empower urban local governments and to employ a variety of local revenue sources-to advance the field of local government finance by studying an important fee-based revenue source - development charges. It begins by...

pt. 1. Measuring infrastructure gaps : quantity and quality perspectives -- pt. 2. Fundamentals in flux : functions, finance, and equalization for decentralized public investment -- pt. 3. Sectoral perspectives -- pt. 4. Investing into the invisible : management and coordination of decentralized...