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Any analysis of urban political orders needs to assess first the city’s socio-economic context and the underlying character of urban development (Stone 2015). Before going into the details of the two cases under study here, some general differences between cities in the U.S. and in Western Europe shall be briefly outlined.
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Gluns, D. (2019). Facts, figures and contexts: Introduction to the cases. In: From Plans to Policies. Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25754-5_5
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